This is a book about how to have a good time decorating. - Dorothy Draper After being out of print for more than sixty years, Decorating Is Fun! is finally being reissued with its original illustrations. Amazingly, the book which was originally published in 1939 on the eve of World War II, is still practical, amusing, and inspirational. Draper's earnest enthusiasm feels fresh and contemporary. She believed that though there were troubles in the world, one's home should be a refuge, a cheerful place for entertaining one's friends and a colourful and comfortable shelter from the storm. Decorating Is Fun! is also a serious book about decorating that does not take itself too seriously.

Decorating Is Fun!: How to be Your Own Decorator

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Draper, Dorothy

Home Improvement & Design

Shannongrove Press, Inc.

o The first complete monograph on the renowned designer Carleton Varney's forty-year career o New photography was especially commissioned from Michel Arnaud, the internationally recognized interiors and portrait photographer o Houses in My Heart was designed by Stafford Cliff who has been responsible for the striking look of many of the best selling titles in the Pointed Leaf Press list Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Carleton Varney moved to New York shortly after graduating from Oberlin College and soon came into his own as a decorator at the prestigious firm of Dorothy Draper &amp; Company Inc. under the guidance of and mentoring by the famous Mrs. Draper herself. Since the mid 1960s, when he took over the company, he has kept it operating as one of the oldest continuing decorating firms in the United States. Longtime clients include the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, in Michigan. Early and loyal-for-decades clients such as show business stars Joan Crawford and Ethel Merman were followed by dozens of clients who all gravitated to his personality as well as his luxurious, bold, and glamorous rooms. In this book, over two dozen of his best, most original, and never published before projects - including his own private residences - are documented in Michel Arnaud's striking and evocative photographs.

Houses in My Heart: Carleton Varney: An International Decorator's Colorful Journey

Arts & Photography

VARNEY, CARLETON

Architecture

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<li>A must-have for any design enthusiasts, especially those interested in Carleton Varney and Dorothy Draper</li>
<li>Insider views of the world's most famous resorts, the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan</li>
<li>Perfect compendium to HSN's television show, Live Vividly</li>
<li>As practical as it is beautiful, this book contains decorating advice from one of Architectural Digest's "Deans of Design"</li>
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 "Everything's grand" says decorator extraordinaire, Carleton Varney. After over forty years in the interior design business, Varney opens his archive and brings together his favorite large-scale luxury decorating projects, including an Irish country manor, a sixteenth-century castle, a colonial mansion, a Southern plantation, along with two of his best-loved resorts - the Greenbrier in West Virginia and the "Queen of the Great Lakes", Michigan's Grand Hotel. On these pages, he also showcases his most recent private residential project - a 6000 square foot Mediterranean-style home, near the Rio Grande. In Decorating in the Grand Manor, Varney focuses our attention on all the elements of elegant design, from crystal chandeliers to magnificent architectural details and dispenses his time-honored advice on how to achieve the look at home.

Decorating in the Grand Manor: A Design Memoir

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