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Dorothy Draper was a Great Lady Decorator<\/h2>\n

Dorothy Mintrum Tuckerman was younger than Elsie de Wolfe, but they would both later work at the same time in New York.\u00a0 Dorothy’s parents were both descended from aristocratic American families. \u00a0 She made her debut in New York where she met George Draper who also was from a prominent family.\u00a0 They married after George finished his medical training.\u00a0 Fifteen hundred guest were invited to the wedding.<\/p>\n

\"Dorothy<\/a>
Bottom: The lobby of the Carlyle, circa 1930. (Photo: Courtesy of the Collection of Dorothy Draper & Co. and the Carleton Varney Design Group)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While George built his practice, Dorothy busied herself with child rearing and decorating her home.\u00a0 The latter won great praise from her friends and one, Gertrude Whitney, asked her advice about decorating her museum.\u00a0 To bolster the income from her husband’s medical practice, Dorothy recommended him to some of her friends.\u00a0 But George had little patience for these women whom he thought prone to emotional problems.\u00a0 Dorothy’s first cousin, May Tuckerman Kinicutt, brought her daughter, Dorothy May ( but know as “Sister”) to him because she was having difficulties in school.\u00a0 Dr. George told May that she, not Sister, was the one with problems.\u00a0 Sister would later marry Henry Parish II and become an interior decorator.\u00a0 Thus, Sister became a business competitor of her second cousin Dorothy. Interesting that there is a family decorating connection here, similar to Casart Coverings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dorothy Draper opened her business in 1925 and worked from her home.\u00a0 Elsie de Wolfe, Ruby Ross Wood, and Eleanor Brown of Mc Millen were all in business in New York at the time, but they did residential work.\u00a0 Dorothy was commissioned to redecorate the Carlyle Hotel which launched her as a commercial decorator working with architects, engineers and real estate developers.\u00a0 The fact that it was considered improper for women of her social strata to go into business didn’t faze her.\u00a0 Later she would say, “American women are divided into two classes, the happily married and the decorators.”<\/p>\n

While Dorothy was decorating, George went to Zurich for eighteen months to study with Dr. Carl Jung.\u00a0 While he was gone, the stock market crashed.\u00a0 When he returned, he asked for a divorce and moved out the same day.\u00a0 George later married Elizabeth Lee who was also a decorator and Dorothy would have to deal professionally with Elizabeth Draper as well as personally in situations that involved the Draper children.\u00a0 Dorothy continued to have commercial contracts and her next break came when the Phipps family asked her to redesign some tenement houses on Sutton Place.\u00a0 She painted all the exteriors black, trimmed in white with each front door painted a different bright color-red, green , yellow, even purple!\u00a0 She created gardens and even tennis courts in back of the houses, which overlooked the East River.<\/p>\n

While Dorothy was decorating the Hampshire House apartment hotel, the terms of her contract included a clause that allowed her and her children to move into a suite there at a reduced rate.\u00a0 At the same time, Benjamin Sonnenberg, a prominent public relations man, asked her to decorate his home.\u00a0 Dorothy took the job without a fee.\u00a0 What she received in return was Sonnenberg’s advice on franchising her name on paint, fabrics, furniture, etc..\u00a0 She was the first decorator to do so.<\/p>\n

She became known in the New York advertising world for her skill at product promotion.\u00a0 She designed the packaging for a line of Dorothy Gray Cosmetics called “In the Pink”.\u00a0 She always demanded to be in complete control of every aspect of a job.\u00a0 She approved news releases, designed the company logo and stationery, even match book covers.\u00a0 She had the final say on everything used in dining rooms including floral arrangements, their placement and size, and the staff uniforms and dress code.\u00a0 She published, but never wrote, a column for Good Housekeeping and hosted a radio talk show.\u00a0 She published a book, Decorating Is Fun! <\/em>which sold 47 thousand copies and followed it with Entertaining Is Fun!<\/em><\/p>\n

Decorating came to a halt during World War II and she took a job of decorating a resort and casino in Brazil.\u00a0\u00a0 Using that experience, she collaborated with F. Schumacher & Co. in 1947 to create a tropical fabric and wallpaper collection they called Brazilliance, highlighting South American style.<\/p>\n

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Following the war, America was enjoying a building boom.\u00a0 She redecorated the Fairmont and Mark Hopkins hotels in San Francisco and the Versailles restaurant in New York.<\/p>\n

\"Dorothy<\/a>
Mark Hopkins Hotel-Courtesy of Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As soon as the Versailles opened, the investors declared bankruptcy and Dorothy Draper used her personal money to pay those who had worked for her and protect her integrity.\u00a0 She did have several other big jobs, including the Greenbrier, which today is little changed.<\/p>\n

She was asked to design interiors for jet airplanes but she was growing frustrated.<\/p>\n

\"Dorothy<\/a>
Gen. Dynamics Convair 880 Jet-Courtesy of Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Decorating was changing.\u00a0 Everything was being decided by boards of directors.\u00a0 Architects wanted to design the interiors of their buildings.\u00a0 Her brother convinced her to sell the business in 1960 and it thrives today.\u00a0 Carleton Varney, the head of Dorothy Draper, Inc., has written In the Pink <\/em>about Dorothy and her signature baroque fantasy style epitomized in her design of the Hampshire House apartment hotel.\u00a0 Dorothy Draper died in 1969.<\/p>\n

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In the Pink, and Draper’s Baroque Fantasy style<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Good Housekeeping has an Ode to Dorothy Draper with lots of pictures and quotes from current designers about Dorothy’s influence.\u00a0 Here are just a few comments.<\/p>\n

Genevieve Gorder–“Dorothy helped pave the road that all of us females can now travel down. Her sense of whimsy and playfulness are traits that inspire me greatly. She was the original design diva, long before design television existed.”<\/p>\n

David Bromstad–“Her biggest move was making baroque fun. It’s a very heavy period, and she made it modern by simply painting it white, or painting it black \u2014 no gilding, no complexity, no glazes. You still get the beautiful lines but none of the heavy. Plus, I love one of her famous quotes, ‘If it looks right, then it probably is.'”<\/p>\n

Kristan Cunningham–“Aside from the boldness, the baroque, and the black and white stripes, she was writing so 100 percent about woman empowerment in Good Housekeeping.<\/em> She was sending out these newsletters to teach regular women how to be more fabulous in their regular life. This is when women still weren’t wearing pants!”<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Lorre Lei<\/em><\/p>\n

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