"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." What is it about color that makes us so happy? Perhaps the feeling is awakened the moment we first ...
When I rented my first Washington apartment in 1976, I hadn't a clue who Dorothy Draper was. But it turned out that the bold green, black and white lobby and exotic banana-leaf paper hallways at the ...
Palm Beach resident Carleton Varney, the internationally known interior designer who owned Dorothy Draper & Co. and whose “Your Family Decorator” column appeared for more than 40 years in the Palm ...
He was trained by the maximalist decorator Dorothy Draper, who favored bold colors, and he inherited her aversion to the bland and the beige. By Penelope Green Carleton Varney, the ebullient interior ...
Dorothy Draper was a style icon who reigned as grand dame of designers from 1925-1960. MCT photo ‘She didn’t like anything minuscule,’ said Dorothy Draper’s former business partner Carleton Varney.