"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As I chronicled in my book The Grand Design: A Novel of Dorothy Draper, Dorothy embraced bold choices in ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dorothy Draper led a life nearly as colorful as the rooms she created. Born in 1889 into a blue-blood New England family at the height of the Gilded Age, she was among the first children to be raised ...