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Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl was an American actress who became a very prominent interior designer and author. Born in New York City, de Wolfe was acutely sensitive to her surroundings from her earliest years and became one of the first female interior decorators, replacing dark and ornate Victorian decor with lighter, simpler styles and uncluttered room layouts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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, collected, and took care of art in this collection.
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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
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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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Known and revered as America's first decorator, Elsie de Wolfe's impact on interior design has been enormous. Even after her death, her legacy continues, as the casual feminine and airy style she introduced remains relevant today. Join me in discovering her story, her legacy, and some of her most important designs.
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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 …
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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 sits within current concern for the domestic interior and is a welcome addition to the literature, contributing as it does a substantial analysis of the career of an early woman practitioner. This recent trend means that it is becoming less accurate to assert, as editor Mitchell Owens does in the opening to his foreword for.
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Women Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps de Wolfe, Elsie (1865-1950) de Wolfe, Elsie (1865-1950) views 2,945,743 updated de Wolfe, Elsie (1865-1950) American interior decorator, known as the Founding Mother of Decorating. Name variations: Lady Mendl.
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