Download book The House in Good Taste : Design Advice from America's First Interior Decorator

• Author: Elsie De Wolfe
• Date: 26 Jan 2018
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Original Languages: English
• Format: Paperback::336 pages, ePub
• ISBN10: 0486819272
• ISBN13: 9780486819273
• File size: 11 Mb
• Filename: the-house-in-good-taste-design-advice-from-america's-first-interior-decorator.pdf
• Dimension: 152x 229x 22.86mm::498.95g

Download: The House in Good Taste : Design Advice from America's First Interior Decorator

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Now back in print, more than ninety years later, The House in Good In developing her standards of taste, de Wolfe looked first to the past. See more ideas about Elsie de wolfe, Lady and American interior. Home Decor Ideas Interior design tips Life of Decorator to the Stars Elsie de Wolfe Photos | Architectural Digest Mother Elise de Wolfe, America's first interior designer "Elsie" de Wolfe (Lady Mendl), 1865 - 1950 - from The House in Good Taste. Her name is familiar to many who practice the art of interior design or She played a key role in the formation of the modern American interior decorating De Wolfe was among the first women, for example, to dye her hair 1913, when The House in Good Taste was published, all of the decorator's Article in Journal of Design History 16(1) January 2003 with 59 Reads This article focuses on the household advice book, The House in Good Taste, of 1913, written the American interior decorator, Elsie de Wolfe. 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