Dorothy Draper was an American interior decorator. Stylistically very anti-minimalist, she would use bright, exuberant colors and large prints that would encompass whole walls.

When did Dorothy Draper decorate the Greenbrier?

In december 1946, not long after the end of the Second World War, the renowned decorator Dorothy Draper glanced at the lobby of The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and pronounced it "a Brobdingnagian monster of a bowling alley." Prior to the war, the grand old hotel had attracted more than its fair ...

Why is Dorothy Draper important?

Draper is credited with professionalizing the field because she worked in the male-dominated world of commercial interiors, working primarily with architects and real estate developers. After divorcing, she incorporated her business as Dorothy Draper Inc.