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Designer and interior decorator Dorothy Draper’s color-filled life story is one of high society, money, gossip, and throughout it all, reinvention. Carleton Varney has owned and directed Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc., for almost 60 years. He worked with Mrs. Draper at the end of her illustrious career, and wrote the only biography of her life, The Draper Touch: The High Life and High Style of Dorothy Draper<\/em>, in 1988. In the book, Varney sets the scene and defines the milieu that Draper was born into in 1889 and from which she escaped to become one of America’s leaders in design—a true visionary entrepreneur. Thirty-three years later, Shannongrove Press is releasing this deluxe edition of The Draper Touch<\/em><\/strong>. With a new foreword by Varney, newly found photographs, recently discovered historical documents from a private collection, and archival ephemera from Draper’s family, this beautiful tome reveals Draper’s fascinating journey and the real stories behind her ground-breaking work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Designer and interior decorator Dorothy Draper’s color-filled life story is one of high society, money, gossip, and throughout it all, reinvention.
Contents
\nRemembering by Carleton Varney
\nAcknowledgments
\n(from the original edition)
\nPreface
\nChapter 1 Mrs. Draper Receives a Ghostly Visitor
\nChapter 2 Family History
\nChapter 3 Growing Up in the Magic Kingdom
\nPhotography Portfolio: Beginnings: The 1890s to the 1920s
\nChapter 4 Becoming a Thoroughbred in the Edwardian Age
\nChapter 5 Escape
\nChapter 6 She Goes into Business
\nChapter 7 Depression
\nPhotography Portfolio: Gaining Recognition: The 1930s
\nChapter 8 Fame
\nChapter 9 The War Years
\nPhotography Portfolio: Heyday: The 1940s to the 1950s
\nChapter 10 Her New Family
\nChapter 11 What a Swell Party It Was
\nChapter 12 The Party’s Over
\nChapter 13 The Last Grande Dame: A Retrospective
\nPhotography Portfolio: Future Perfect: The 1960s to Today
\nAfterword\/Appendices
\nAcknowledgments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5685],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33252","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-interiors","7":"author-by-author-carleton-varney","8":"publisher-shannongrove-press-inc","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Draper Touch - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/the-draper-touch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Draper Touch - 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