"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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." No matter how much you prepare for your first visit to The Greenbrier, you’ll still be appropriately ...

Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel is known for its legendarily bold interior style (think: pinks, greens, turquoises, stripes, checks, and florals in one room). The Grand’s decorator, Carleton Varney, is ...

"Featuring photographs, designs, artwork, and ephemera from the collection of Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc., The Carleton Varney Design Group." ...

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"Dorothy Draper was the one who made decorating and design a business," Varney says of Draper, the original domestic diva, who out-Marthaed Martha in her day by spreading her gospel of big, bold style ...

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 ...

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 ...