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Elise de Wolfe was the first professional interior decorator beginning her career in 1910. She took Victorian interiors and lightened them up. She was influenced by classical design, but gave it a modern twist.
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Elsie de Wolfe ... The Lady-Socialite who invented Modern Interior Decoration ...
Like the old fashioned take on home design. a classic
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Best of the best ..Tony Duquette the amazing talent....
Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl), who discovered Duquette in 1941, advised him: “You work for who you see, you are in a luxury business, no point living like a starving artist in a garret. Nobody is going to hire you if you live worse than they do!”
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The Colony Club in NYC by Elsie de Wolfe - America's first official interior designer.. According to The New Yorker, "Interior Design as a profession was invented by Elsie de Wolfe."