Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (973 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0926494279 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 372 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her name is familiar to many who practice the art of interior design or who are linked to the fashionable world of tastemaking. Ogden Armour, to name a few) and concludes with a timeline of her works. I am going in now for interior decoration. She provided appropriate settings for the new rich in the first half of the 20th century and in the process helped to shape our understanding of what we have come to know as the modern domestic interior. (Elsie de Wolfe) Through the measured re-examination of known materials as well as the review of history-clarifying documents that have been overlooked or underused by previous de Wolfe enthusiasts, Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration provides the foundation of a renewed interest in her groundbreaking career, her philosophy of design, and her belief that an atmosphere of beauty could cure a world of ills. Elsie de Wolfe is a 20th-century legend and is the mother of modern interior decoration. Women have done the same thing before. It is nothing new. This large format, profusely illustrated book covers 29 projects (including Villa Trianon, The Colony Club, Anne Vanderbilt, Anne Morgan, the Duchess of Windsor, and J. By that I mean supplying objets d art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. Written by English decorative arts scholar Penny Sparke and edited by New York Times contri
. A hollow table on casters was also thought to be an asset in a dressing room, as were a heated towel rack, a wall cabinet, lots of shelves and hooks, and a shallow bottle closet. From Publishers Weekly An actress and social climber with a love for the dramatic, Elsie de Wolfe defined interior decorating from the gilded age through two world wars, the jazz age and the onset of modernism. Many drawers were needed to contain letter-writing equipment, among other things, to save having to go into another room to get them. She began with the residence she shared with companion and theatrical manager Elisabeth Marbury and expanded her client list to include newly moneyed Americans looking for social respectability via graceful, 18th-century-inspired interiors: Anne Morgan, Condé Nast, Henry Clay Frick, J. The wall had to be lined with closets, painted with bright col
"Self-made tastemaker" according to S. Annetta. An exclusive self-made member of the design cognoscenti, Elsie de Wolfe was a social climber and a tastemaker. This is an unrivalled publication of a woman who pretty much defined style in the early part of the 20th century and is recognized as being the first paid interior . Ramon Delgado said ms de wolfe. great book for historical ideas of how interior design was really started and approached at the turn of the centuryms de wolfe really is a super a super star!!!!. HISTORICAL SENSATION THIS BOOK IS AN HISTORICAL SENSATION.A WONDERFUL READ AND FULL OF STUNNING PICTURES; WELL WORTH HAVING; MAYBE TWO IN YOUR LIBRARY ONE TO KEEP AND ONE TO CONSTANTLY REFER TO FOR INSPIRATIONA MUST HAVE !!!!