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December
15, 2006 thru March 31, 2007
In the Pink: The Legendary Life of Dorothy Draper
The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future™ and
the Carleton Varney Design Group (NY) have joined together to
create the sophisticated and glamorous In the Pink exhibit benefiting
the legend of Dorothy Draper.
In
addition to scenes from her famous design locations, the exhibit
includes original furniture, the white metal bird cage chandelier,
personal photography, Ms. Draper’s history, and artifacts
from her collection cleverly presented in an elegant setting.
Dorothy
Draper was the designer of the penthouse at the historic Dallas
Stoneleigh Hotel. The Stoneleigh Hotel is the presenting sponsor
of the exhibit and is welcoming back Jeff Trigger to the newly
renovated Stoneleigh.
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Welcome
to the Home Page featuring Party Pics from the Kick Off Party
celebrating the exhibit at the Women's Museum in Fair Park: In
the Pink, The Legendary Life of Dorothy Draper, and so much more!
(Published January 14, 2007) |
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Fall
2006, Carleton Varney, CEO, Dorothy
Draper & Company, whose founder, Dorothy Draper, designed
the Stoneleigh Penthouse in 1938 - spoke at the Julia Sweeney
Talk Series and then revisited Dallas in December to kick
off this fabulous exhibit.
Known
as "The King of Color," Varney has authored over
16 books, the latest, "In the Pink" is all about
Draper and her fascincating life and designs.
Link
to Party Pics from the Kick
off party at the Women's Museum
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Entrance
of the Women's Museum PaperCity launch of In the Pink, The Legendary
Life of Dorothy Draper. Poster sized reproducitons of the PaperCity
insert featuring Rob Brinkley's article The Air Up There.
Photo
courtesy Stoneleigh Hotel |
Edited
from socialwhirl.com's blog:
"Get these while you can" by Sharon on December
30, 2006, 11:56 am, in category General:
At the Women's Museum PaperCity launch of In the Pink, The
Legendary Life of Dorothy Draper, a special insert was handed
out
[which] includes Rob Brinkley's fabulous article, The Air
Up There, about Colonel Stewart's penthouse at the Stonleigh,
circa 1938. Stewart bought the Stonleigh in 1935. [Renovations
to the penthouse were in] 1938 by Dorothy Draper, [which also]
included most of the hotel, as well.
Tie
this in with the current renovations of the Stonleigh, including
Draper & Co. head Carleton Varney's spiffing up the penthouse
and the building of the new Stonleigh Residences.
All
of this ties in very nicely with the current exhibit at the
Women's Museum. Worth a walk through. And remember to snag one
of the PaperCity inserts.
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The
exhibit also features a tape of a portion of Edward R. Murrow's
"Person to Person" television interview of Dorothy Draper
as she takes visitors through a personal tour of her home inside
the Carlyle in New York and elaborates on her philosophy of design.
(Left
photo of Edward R. Murrow and CBS producer Fred Friendly courtesy
Washington State University)
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A
quote from the Murrow interview:
Murrow:
What particular training did you have for all of this [design
work]?
Draper:
I haven't had any training, except a great love of it and a
certain sense of adventuresome-ness and daring.
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Link
to Page
4 in the Dallas Morning News F!D Luxe January 2007 edition
to a very interesting photo
by Courtney Perry of New York artist Millree Huges as he
hand paints wall-sized murals of Draper's Cabbage Rose design
for the Women's Museum exhibit.
On
the same page, Christopher Wynn gives details
of how you can commission your own wall or mural or buy
the fabric by the yard.
FYI:
When viewing the page, double click on the article to open a
larger image of the article. Placing the cursor over the article
brings up the article, as well.
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Another
interesting read from New
York Home Design website:
The Draper Effect
Her
eye-popping colors, oversize prints, and controlled flourishes
once defined urban interior sophistication. Now the exuberantly
anti-Minimalist Dorothy Draper is front and center again.
By
Wendy Goodman
Left
photos courtesy New York Home Design
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Googling
"Dorothy Draper" also brings up pages of fun browsing.
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