Lewis, Adam.

The great lady decorators : the women who defined interior design, 1870-1955 / Adam Lewis ; foreword by Bunny WIlliams ; original room portraits by Jeremiah Goodman. - New York : Rizzoli : Distributed in the U.S. trade by Random House, 2010. - 287 p.

Elsie de Wolfe -- Ruby Ross Wood -- Elsie Cobb Wilson -- Dorothy Draper -- Frances Elkins -- Rose Cumming -- Thedlow and Marian Hall -- Syrie Maugham -- Nancy Lancaster -- Madeleine Castaing --Eleanor Brown -- Sister Parish, Mrs. Henry Parish II.

Mixing gorgeous interiors with sparkling social history, this is the first book on the visionary women whose work shaped the principles of modern interior decorating.

9780847833368 (hc.) 0847833364 (hc.)


Women interior decorators--Biography.
Interior decorators--Biography.
Interior decoration--History--United States--20th century.
Interior decoration--History--United States--19th century.

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