QUOTE: Billy Baldwin, Decorator

 

“When you want to transform a room

 into an entirely different animal,

 

 

Poodles in Color Doris Day

Movie  April In Paris, Doris Day.  Image: Collier’s , 1952

 

 

 

…change the  C  O  L  O  R.”

  

 

Billy Baldwin  (1903-1983)

 

 

Billy Baldwin, known as the “Dean of American Decorating,” was famous for his brilliant use of color & classical taste.  

 

 

Adam Lewis, author of the book  Billy Baldwin: The Great American Decorator, shares his thoughts about the legendary Interior Designer in the video below. For more about Lewis’s book click here.

 

 

Later, I’ve got to let the Dog out –

I’m heading to the paint store,

 

 

  

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QUOTE: Dorothy Draper

QUOTE: Dorothy Draper

“Isn’t it a good thing

that we all don’t have

the same taste?”

 

 Ask Dorothy Draper, Newspaper Decorating Advice Column, 1962

 

 

 

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