"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." What is it about color that makes us so happy? Perhaps the feeling is awakened the moment we first ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." No matter how much you prepare for your first visit to The Greenbrier, you’ll still be appropriately ...

Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel is known for its legendarily bold interior style (think: pinks, greens, turquoises, stripes, checks, and florals in one room). The Grand’s decorator, Carleton Varney, is ...

When I rented my first Washington apartment in 1976, I hadn't a clue who Dorothy Draper was. But it turned out that the bold green, black and white lobby and exotic banana-leaf paper hallways at the ...

WHEN DOROTHY DRAPER, Gilded Age heiress turned famed decorator, was enlisted in 1946 to revitalize the storied Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., she was met with its skeletal remains.

Dorothy Draper led a life nearly as colorful as the rooms she created. Born in 1889 into a blue-blood New England family at the height of the Gilded Age, she was among the first children to be raised ...