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Elsie de Wolfe Biography, Designs, & Facts Britannica
Elsie de Wolfe was born in New York in 1865. In her autobiography, she described herself as "an ugly child" who lived in "an ugly age." Her father earned a reasonable income as a doctor.
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A New York actress who dressed much better than she performed turned self-taught, headline-making, hard-nosed, ferociously Francophile aesthete, de Wolfe (a.k.a. Lady Mendl) personified.
The Fabulous Life of Decorator to the Stars Elsie de Wolfe Photos
by 1stDibs editors Elsie de Wolfe was a self-pronounced "rebel in an ugly world." Her revolt began early, when as a small girl she threw a temper tantrum at the sight of the hopelessly drab William Morris-style wallpaper with which her mother had covered the walls of her room.
Elsie de Wolfe La prima interior designer della storia
Style setter, actress, business woman, and a free spirit who lived to be different Elsie de Wolfe blazed the interior design trail in 1910. At age 40, after acting on stage in New York, Elsie found her true gift was in set design. She wanted to find a way to bring that talent into homes that were quite tired and dark with Victorian gloom.
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SINCE her death in France in 1950 at the age of 85, Elsie de Wolfe has been variously remembered as the first interior decorator, the first ''lady'' to appear on a Broadway stage, the first.
Eyeopening images of the final lavish bash thrown by the socialite
Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl ( née Ella Anderson de Wolfe; December 20, c. 1859 [1] - July 12, 1950 [2]) was an American actress who became a very prominent interior designer and author.
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Elsie de Wolfe, also known as Lady Mendl, was both a close friend of Isabella's and a pioneering interior decorator. Gardner—who had her own aesthetic—did not hire de Wolfe to design her homes. She likely bought the table as a way to support both a friend and a female professional. An Unlikely Friendship
Elsie De Wolfe In A Sleeveless Dress by Edward Steichen
A Marriage of Convenience Photo: My Years on the Stage by John Drew (E. P. Dutton & Company, 1922) A December 11, 1897, New York Times article reports that Boldini was "finishing a large portrait.
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Elsie de Wolfe, also known as Lady Mendl, was born in 1865 in New York, lived a glamorous life as a well-known member of the European cafe society and earned the title of "grand dame of modern decorating". She is believed to be the creator of the interior design profession and called the 'first modern professional decorator' by many.
Elsie De Wolfe (18651950) Photograph by Granger
Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950) was the first professional interior designer in America. She believed in achieving a single, harmonious, overall design statement, and felt that the decoration of the home should reflect the woman's personality, rather than simply the husband's earning power.
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Elsie de Wolfe (born December 20, 1865, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 12, 1950, Versailles, France) American interior decorator, hostess, and actress, best known for her innovative and anti-Victorian interiors.. De Wolfe was educated privately in New York and in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she lived with maternal relatives.Through that connection she was presented at Queen Victoria's.
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Architecture + Design Elsie de Wolfe The American pioneer who vanquished Victorian gloom By Edgar Munhall December 31, 1999 Though dead for half a century, Elsie de Wolfe remains an icon to.
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Elsie de Wolfe was an interior decorator before there was such a thing. And if she wasn't making headlines for covering 18th century footstools in leopard print, she was in the newspapers for her eccentric blue hair, her affinity for small dogs (see here, here, and here), and unique preferences for physical fitness. Born in New …