Paxton Place Design
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1st October 2020
Dorothy Draper — Paxton Place Design
Most of the spaces she designed were for elite crowds, but Draper’s style aimed to bring extravagance to everyone. She has been remembered as saying, “there seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.”
Some of Draper’s notable works include the Metropolitan Museum of Art cafeteria, nicknamed “The Dorotheum” in her honor, the Greenbriar Hotel & Resort, and some unique fabric patterns, such as “Romance & R