A biography of American interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe. Born in 1865, this pioneering self-styled decorator created a “woman's” profession in the age of the Vanderbilts. Concentrating on surfaces while Frank Lloyd Wright was creating architecture, she freed American interiors from the gloomy late-Victorian clutter and introduced light and color, paradoxically having a greater influence on the American style of the day than Wright himself. She died in 1950, leaving behind the dual legacy—decreeing the success of the all-white room and starting something of a revolution by influencing home-style culture among her fellow Americans. From: database Art Full Text (H. W. Wilson)
Elsie De Wolfe: Good Life
FORINO, IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE
2005-01-01
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A biography of American interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe. Born in 1865, this pioneering self-styled decorator created a “woman's” profession in the age of the Vanderbilts. Concentrating on surfaces while Frank Lloyd Wright was creating architecture, she freed American interiors from the gloomy late-Victorian clutter and introduced light and color, paradoxically having a greater influence on the American style of the day than Wright himself. She died in 1950, leaving behind the dual legacy—decreeing the success of the all-white room and starting something of a revolution by influencing home-style culture among her fellow Americans. From: database Art Full Text (H. W. Wilson)| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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