Dorothy Draper, Interior Design Classic Book, "Decorating is Fun: How to be Your Own Decorator" Rare Hardcover Original Edition

Decorating Is Fun! by Dorothy Draper. This rare hardcover was published by Doubleday Doran, it's the edition copyright 1939. Forward by Eleanor Roosevelt.

In her heyday, Dorothy Draper(1889-1969) was the most famous decorator in America. She had a monthly column in Good Housekeeping magazine and decorated luxury hotels such as the Greenbrier in West Virginia, along with restaurants, nightclubs, houses, apartment buildings, stores, and airplanes. She designed fabrics in the spirit of Brazil, Hawaii, and Spain. She understood the perils and pleasures of furnishing a home, and it was her uncanny understanding of human nature as much as her knowledge of scale, proportion and color that made America trust her.

Her book shows, in a most practical way, how easy it is to become your own decorator and to have fun doing it. She discusses how make a captivating and comfortable home, how to use color in clever and classic ways, Line drawings illustrate very clearly the right and wrong ways of arranging furniture.

Specific directions are given on how to buy shrewdly and how to balance a room and a slender budget at the same time. Photographs show actual details in specific decorative treatments and case histories illustrate the author's theories and prove their adaptability to every-day problems.
Vivid, stimulating, practical-no more helpful book on decorating for those of average means could be found.

B I B L I O G R A P H I C D E T A I L S
Doubleday Doran
Hardcover, 244 pages
Printed in USA
Copyright 1939, printed in 1941
Measures 7.5"W x 1"D × 9.25"H
Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in silver with dust jacket.

C O N D I T I O N
Book is in good used vintage condition, no dust jacket. Actual hardcover is a little waxy, with smudges and some discoloration. It looks like maybe the glue is showing through the center portions of the boards, front and back. Pages are clean and unmarked, a little sun-faded on the edges.

The dust jacket shows wear— it's discolored/tanned from the sun and age and there are a few small tears on the front/back cover and more significant tearing on the spine which also along the top into the front cover, some shelf and edge wear.

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