Sentences with phrase «american interior decoration»

To delve into the early days of American interior decoration, head to The Mount, a national historic landmark that was the summer home of Edith Wharton, who coauthored The Decoration of Houses in 1897 before conceiving her Lenox estate in 1901, where she entertained friends like Henry James.

Emily is the author of several books, including The World of Madeleine Castaing and Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration.

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I consulted books such as Victorian Interior Decoration: American Interiors 1830 - 1900, In the Victorian Style, and a wonderfully illuminating book, Death in the Dining Room: And other Tales of Victorian Culture, to help me determine what Annie Fuller's boarding house would have looked like by the time she inherited it in 1878.