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Ashley began the week with some history so I will finish it with some, too by revisiting the Great Lady Decorators.<\/p>\n

Selecting the decorators for these three posts was not an easy task.\u00a0 After all, I had to choose from a dozen featured in The Great Lady Decorators<\/em> <\/a>by Adam Lewis.\u00a0 I selected Elsie de Wolfe, Dorothy Draper, Rose Cumming <\/strong>and Sister Parish<\/strong> because they all shared so many qualities.\u00a0 All came to their occupation not through choice but as a result of circumstances which presented a need.\u00a0 They were risk-takers.\u00a0 They were leaders, not followers.\u00a0 All were somewhat eccentric.\u00a0 Elsie and Rose were flamboyant, “over the top”.\u00a0 Elsie dyed her hair blue.\u00a0 Rose dyed hers lavender.\u00a0 Dorothy and Sister actually had a familial relationship: they were second cousins.\u00a0 Between them, they covered the development of decorating over more than three quarters of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Rose Cumming<\/h2>\n

Rose was an Australian who became stranded in New York on the way to England to be married.\u00a0 It was 1917 and ships were not accepting female passengers for Atlantic crossings.\u00a0 She was traveling with her sister, Eileen.\u00a0 Since their family was socially prominent, letters of introduction were sent and they were welcomed into the arms of New York society.\u00a0 One of the people they met was Frank Crowninshield, editor of a new publication, Vanity Fair. <\/em>Rose told him she was bored sitting around doing nothing all day and going to parties every night.\u00a0 He suggested she become an interior decorator.\u00a0 Rose replied that she’d be glad to try it but didn’t know what it entailed.\u00a0 She also met Otto Kahn, one of the wealthiest men in America at the time and they had a torrid affair.\u00a0 He provided Rose with the money to open her decorating business.\u00a0 She entertained the members of the international set as well as members of\u00a0 established New York society and her name frequently appeared in the social column of the New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rose was passionate about color: daring and dramatic.\u00a0 She had her own particular combinations of jade and blue, saying, “Parrots are blue and green.\u00a0 Why shouldn’t fabrics be?”\u00a0 She mixed blood red with tangerine and hyacinth with deep purple and pink.\u00a0 She liked to use antique fabrics and furniture showing age.\u00a0 She became the decorator for movie\u00a0 stars like Marlene Dietrich and Mary Pickford.\u00a0 She wrote a book called The Finest Rooms. <\/em>She dressed flamboyantly and dyed her hair lavender to rival Elsie de Wolfe’s blue hair.\u00a0 At home, she dressed in a Chinese Mandarin robe.<\/p>\n

\"Rose<\/a>
Rose Cumming in Chinese Mandarin Robe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rose often wore black crepe shapeless long dresses with randomly pinned fabric swatches and silk cords, meant for curtain tie backs, around her waist.\u00a0 She appeared for dinner at the residence of Sister Parish wearing such an ensemble plus a crown of plastic ferns in her hair.\u00a0 The doorman thought she was a bag lady and Mrs. Parish had to come down to the lobby to claim her guest.<\/p>\n

Rose was innovative.\u00a0 She was the first decorator to leave the lights burning all night in her shop so the interior could be seen at all hours.\u00a0 She used cellophane for curtains and when Mylar came on the market in the 50s Rose used it for wallpaper.\u00a0 Such an out-of-the-box idea for wallpaper makes her my kind of woman!\u00a0 I think I would have gotten along swimmingly with Rose.\u00a0 While I don’t dye my hair lavender, I do have a favorite brightly patterned Mandarin silk robe.\u00a0 As a Casart Coverings<\/a> partner, I’m always searching for new design patterns and innovative uses for our product and I’ve often felt like a salmon swimming upstream.<\/p>\n

Rose’s contributions to decorating live on in the fabrics she designed and which are still being produced under her name.\u00a0 One of her favorite phrases was “Either you have flair or you don’t.”\u00a0 After her death in 1968, her sister became president of Rose Cumming, Inc. and managed the business until it was closed in 1977.\u00a0 Some time ago The Peak of Chic<\/a> featured Rose Cumming and an Ode to the Eccentrics<\/em> in a post and you can read more about Rose there.\u00a0 The following picture is from that post.<\/p>\n

\"Example<\/a>
Rose Cumming’s Bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sister Parish, another Great Lady Decorator<\/h2>\n

Mrs. Henry Parish II, nee Dorothy May Kinnicut but affectionately nicknamed “Sister”, was born in 1910.\u00a0 About her name she is said to have quipped, “It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.” \u00a0 Sister made her debut at the Pierre Hotel in 1927 and spent the following summer in Paris in her parents’ apartment.\u00a0 She said this was a turning point in her life.\u00a0 She looked at the beautiful furnishing in a new and thoughtful way.\u00a0 “My eyes were opened and so was my heart”.\u00a0 Three years later she married Henry Parish II who was also from a distinguished family.\u00a0 Later, in a rented home, Sister decorated in a fashion way ahead of the day.\u00a0 She stripped dark furniture and painted it.\u00a0 Upholstered pieces were slipcovered in floral chintz and floors were painted in geometric patterns.\u00a0 Friends started asking her for decorating advice.<\/p>\n

When the stock market crashed in 1929, her husband was forced to take a cut in his salary.\u00a0 The thought of living on less and not being able to provide a gracious life for her family was not acceptable to her.\u00a0 Without discussing it with her husband, she decided to go into business.\u00a0 As with the other women decorators before her, working was unthinkable for a married woman with children in her social circle.\u00a0 Undaunted, she opened an account at a fabric house, rented a one room commercial space, painted it herself, brought\u00a0 a wicker chair and wicker desk from home, and hung out her sign: Mrs. Henry Parish II, Interiors!\u00a0 A friend had asked her to decorate a new restaurant, Howard Johnson’s.\u00a0 The orange and aqua color scheme that she created is familiar to all.\u00a0 Her primary goal from the beginning was to properly provide for her family.\u00a0 It certainly was not to one day be called “the queen of interior decorating” by the New York Times. <\/em><\/p>\n

Sister Parish closed her business during the war when her husband was stationed in Florida. \u00a0 Following the war, she had an import-export arrangement with Colefax & Fowler of London, but terminated that when laws limited the amount to money that could be taken out of England.\u00a0 She reopened a shop under her first business name and worked there for 30 years.\u00a0 Newspaper and magazine coverage was very difficult to come by because clients didn’t want pictures of their homes published.\u00a0 Socially, it was acceptable for a lady’s name\u00a0 to be in the paper only three times during her life: when she was born, when she married, and when she died.\u00a0 In 1960, articles in the New York Times <\/em>and\u00a0 House & Garden<\/em> brought about a change.\u00a0 Sister was asked by Jacqueline Kennedy to help with her plans for the White House.<\/p>\n

\"Examle<\/a>
Yellow Oval Office-The White House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The reporter for the Times <\/em>didn’t clarify the name “Sister” and the headline read: “Kennedys Pick Nun to Decorate White House”.\u00a0 Everyone immediately wanted to know more about Sister Parish!\u00a0 This was followed by an extensive story about Sister’s summer home, Dark Harbor.\u00a0 The colors, the chintz, country rugs and ruffled curtains resonated with readers and became ‘the country look”.\u00a0 Sister was swamped with work and proposals.\u00a0 Her friend, Van Day Truex, who was design director at Tiffany asked if she would interview Albert Hadley who had just resigned from his decorating job at McMillen.\u00a0 She did and an on-going relationship was forged at that meeting.\u00a0 The most important things they shared were talent and determination to get the job done right.\u00a0 Hadley said about their partnership, “Of course we had our differences, and they could be enormous.\u00a0 I could have never done what I did without her, and she would not have accomplished what she did, without me.\u00a0 We both always knew this.”<\/p>\n

\"Sister<\/a><\/p>\n

In the fall of 1994, in declining health, her family flew her to her beloved Dark Harbor where she died.\u00a0 Susan Carter described her grandmother in her last days as a monarch coming to her end with the defiance of imperial majesty.<\/p>\n

Until WWII, interior decorating was dominated by women.\u00a0 After the war men realized this was a lucrative business if one had the talent and drive and more men began to enter the design world, following in the footsteps of the Great Lady Decorators.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Lorre Lei<\/em><\/p>\n

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