How They Decorated: Inspiration from Great Women of the Twentieth Century

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How They Decorated illustrates one of the crucial great rooms of the twentieth century, whose stylish residents influence our tastes nowadays.
 
Gloria Vanderbilt cleverly noted, “Decorating is autobiography.” Reflecting that truism, the interiors on this book capture the individual approaches of these icons of style: Bunny Mellon’s spare all-American elegance; Hélène Rochas’s refined sophistication; Vanessa Bell’s colorful bohemianism; Mona von Bismarck’s breezy opulence; and Georgia O’Keeffe’s earthy chic. Writer P. Gaye Tapp analyzes Every of her subjects’ refined way of life, how she embellished her residences (or left them elegantly stark), and the long-lasting effects on nowadays’s generation of designers and connoisseurs of beauty.
 
The book is presented in four sections that describe the aesthetic approaches that the ladies took in decorating their abodes: “The Fashionably Chic”, “The Unconventional Eye”, “In the Grand Manner”, and “Legacy Style”. Every interior illustrates the an important aspect of the lady’s definitive taste. Some worked closely with decorating legends such as John Fowler, Albert Hadley, Billy Stanley Baldwin, Syrie Maugham, and Jean-Michel Frank. Others took to the task of decorating single-handedly—like Pauline Trigère, Sybil Connolly, Vita Sackville-West, and Fleur Cowles. The interiors of these trendsetting ladies defied their time and inspire and delight to this present day. In How They Decorated, one can learn from essentially the most notable style muses of the last century.

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