Elsie de Wolfe, Eleanor McMillen Brown, and Dorothy...

In the Early 20th Century a movement began; the movement that made women strive to be professional interior decorators. It was a new idea of decorating but to make it a profession, that’s what made the difference. During this time a few women made history, Elsie de Wolfe, Eleanor McMillen Brown, and Dorothy Draper. Their styles and way of doing things put them down in the books as some of the greatest. Between the decorators their styles vary, some have similarities while some are completely different. For instance, Elsie de Wolfe who is considered to be the first lady of interior decoration believed in simplicity, suitability, and proportion. She hated the Victorian style but she loved the complete opposite, French style. Everything had to be white and gold with elegant warm colors that made the spaces a soft eighteenth-century French sophistication. Wolfe became known as â€Å"the Chintz Lady† immediately after the Colony opened in 1907, when she introduced a casual feminine style with an abundance of glazed chintz. ( ) Elsie de Wolfe did many private houses that ranged from the East to West Coast, opera boxes and also a dormitory at Barnard College. Eleanor McMillen Brown had a similar style to that of Wolfe’s but she had a twist on it. She added Directoire and English Regency intermixing the periods and styles together allowed for her to have a different perspective. Eleanor cared for the interior background of the room, the architecture. She was always considering good