Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fans of the late design legend Dorothy Draper now have the chance to buy the elegant home where she grew up. The interior ...

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WHEN DOROTHY DRAPER, Gilded Age heiress turned famed decorator, was enlisted in 1946 to revitalize the storied Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., she was met with its skeletal remains.

Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel is known for its legendarily bold interior style (think: pinks, greens, turquoises, stripes, checks, and florals in one room). The Grand’s decorator, Carleton Varney, is ...

Design history is famous for its maximalists: extravagant, expressive interior designers like Dorothy Draper, Tony Duquette, Sister Parish and, in the modern age, Miles Redd, Kelly Wearstler and ...

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 ...