Decorating Is Fun!: How to be Your Own Decorator - Hardcover

Draper, Dorothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0977787516 ISBN 13: 9780977787517

Publisher: Shannongrove Press, Inc., 2007

Synopsis

This is a book about how to have a good time decorating. - Dorothy Draper After being out of print for more than sixty years, Decorating Is Fun! is finally being reissued with its original illustrations. Amazingly, the book which was originally published in 1939 on the eve of World War II, is still practical, amusing, and inspirational. Draper's earnest enthusiasm feels fresh and contemporary. She believed that though there were troubles in the world, one's home should be a refuge, a cheerful place for entertaining one's friends and a colourful and comfortable shelter from the storm. Decorating Is Fun! is also a serious book about decorating that does not take itself too seriously.

About this title

About the Author

In her heyday, Dorothy Draper(1889-1969) was the most famous decorator in America. She had a monthly column in Good Housekeeping magazine and decorated luxury hotels such as the Greenbrier in West Virginia, along with restaurants, nightclubs, houses, apartment buildings, stores, and airplanes. She designed fabrics in the spirit of Brazil, Hawaii, and Spain. She understood the perils and pleasures of furnishing a home, and it was her uncanny understanding of human nature as much as her knowledge of scale, proportion and color that made America trust her.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shannongrove Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977787516
• ISBN 13: 9780977787517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274