Sister Parish: The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer

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17 Minutes Ago - DOWNLOAD PDF NOW: https://koleksimajalah900.blogspot.com/?book=0865652945 ==> Available Formats: #eBook #Audibook #PDF #Kindle #ePub #Mobi <== (Get the book Now) Sister Parish: The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer By Full Pages. Calling all book lovers! My latest creation is here, waiting to transport you to a world of imagination. Dive into a story that will captivate your heart and mind. Ready to start the adventure?. Book Summary: Sister Parish: The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer Sister8212as she was always called by family and friends8212was born Dorothy May Kinnicutt into a patrician New York family in 1910 and spent her privileged early life at the right schools, yacht clubs, and coming-out parties. Compelled to work during the lean years of the Depression, Sister combined her innate design ability with her upper-echelon social connections to create an extraordinarily successful interior decorating business. The Parish-Hadley firm8217s list of clients reads like an American Who8217s Who, starting with Astors, Kennedys, Paleys, Rockefellers, and Whitneys. She helped Jacqueline Kennedy transform the White House from a fusty hodge-podge into a historically authentic symbol of American elegance. For her clients, she was an indispensable presence, both in their salons and designing them. Sister8217s style, marked by cozy, airy, colorful, but understated elegance, came to be known as quotAmerican country,quot and its influence continues to this day.Compiled by Apple Parish Bartlett (one of Sister8217s daughters) and Susan Bartlett Crater (a granddaughter) from Sister8217s own unpublished memoirs, as well as from hundreds of interviews with family members, friends, staff, world-renowned interior designers (Mark Hampton, Mario Buatta, Keith Irvine, Bunny Williams, and her long-time partner Albert Hadley, among many others), and clients (Annette de la Renta, Glenn Bernbaum, Mrs. Thomas Watson, et al.), Sister Parish takes the reader right into the houses8212and the lives8212of some of the most fascinating and famous people of this inimitable woman8217s time.Long out of print, this acclaimed biography8212a New York Times Notable Book8212of the doyenne of American interior design is once again available to acquaint a whole new generation of designers and design lovers with the charismatic woman who redefined interior design in America. Fully updated, the revised edition features a new Foreword by Albert Hadley and an Appreciation by Bunny Williams, who began her career at Parish-Hadley.A New York Times Notable BookPraise for Sister Parish:quotSister Parish8217s reminiscences, along with those of her friends and admirers, bear a remarkable resemblance to what one remembers about her interior decorating8212warm, personable, cozy, thoughtful, harmonious, satisfying, impeccable. An enchanting compilation.quot8212George PlimptonquotIn my novel People Like Us, I based the character of the famous society decorator Cora Mandell on Sister Parish. Apple Parish Bartlett and Susan Bartlett Crater have presented a loving portrait of her, as well as a superb social history of her era.quot8212Dominick DunnequotIf you love design, history and a good biography, you are sure to enjoy this bookquot8212Annechovie blogquotWhat makes this biography so enjoyable is that it compiles Sister's own unpublished memoirs with stories from family members, friends, staff, clients and world-renowned interior designers. . . . All generations of decorators and designers will appreciate this look at the life of this American icon.quot 8212From the Right Bank blogquotCompiled from Sister's unpublished memoirs and augmented by many interviews with friends, family, staff and fellow design icons, it is a wonderful insider look at an era and a life.quot 8212Quintessence blogquotThis book is a MUST HAVE for any design library of substance or design student.quot 8212Arc