Elsie de Wolfe - Wikipedia
网页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.
Design Legends: Elsie de Wolfe - Architectural Digest
网页1999年12月31日 · 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 this day, revered as...
Elsie de Wolfe | Biography, Designs, & Facts | Britannica
网页Elsie de Wolfe, American interior decorator, hostess, and actress, best known for her innovative and anti-Victorian interiors. Her first commission, the interior of the Colony Club in New York, demonstrated her signature principles of …
Elsie de Wolfe: Biography, Works, Awards - Architecture Lab
网页2024年1月23日 · Elsie de Wolfe, born Ella Anderson de Wolfe and later known as Lady Mendl, was a pioneering American interior designer, actress, and socialite. Born in 1859 in New York City, she grew up in a fashionable family and spent her early years in Scotland, leading to her presentation at Queen Victoria’s court in 1883.
Elsie de Wolfe: America’s First Interior Designer
网页2018年7月11日 · 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.
A Life in Good Taste - The New Yorker
网页2004年9月19日 · A Life in Good Taste. By Ruth Franklin. September 19, 2004. In 1921, at the pinnacle of her decorating career, Elsie de Wolfe sued one of her clients for neglecting to pay her for seventeen...
Interior Decorator, Elsie de Wolfe - Isabella Stewart Gardner …
网页2022年3月8日 · 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.
Elsie de Wolfe, The Colony Club, and the birthplace of ... - Curbed
网页2017年3月23日 · The contemporary concept of an interior designer didn’t exist in American domestic life until about the turn of the 20th century. And the pioneering decorator who started it all, many argue, was...
What's Her Story: Elsie de Wolfe | The Frick Collection
网页2020年11月23日 · What's Her Story: Elsie de Wolfe. November 23, 2020. The year 2020 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted millions of women in the U.S. the right to vote. The Frick is celebrating with a series of videos honoring the stories of women who made, appeared in, …
The Fabulous Life of Decorator to the Stars Elsie de Wolfe
网页2016年2月2日 · In a 1936 photograph, Elsie de Wolfe (far left) sits next to actress and opera star Grace Moore at a party at Pickfair, the home of Mary Pickford. Joining them are Moore’s husband, actor ...