Interior Designers - Who was America's First?

Who is your favorite interior designer?

Two ladies of interest who influenced interior design, Elsie de Wolfe and Dorothy Draper, vie for the title "America's First Interior Designer."

Elsie de Wolfe, First Professional Interior Designer? Elsie wrote what may have been the one of the first great books on interior design. I love her motto: "Never complain, never explain." Elsie de Wolfe

Even though renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright called her an "inferior desecrator," Dorothy Draper had decorated scores of offices, restaurants, hospitals, and even a car for Packard (in 1952) and an airplane interior for Convair (the 880) before she died in 1969. Dorothy Draper

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Jeanette Fisher
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