World Renown Designer Carleton Varney in Vegas

Renown interior designer, Carleton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Company was in town to celebrate the debut of his new book "Houses in My Heart." The special 1st Friday event was hosted by Robert Allen/Beacon Hill in the Las Vegas Design Center. (Yes, I started this blog the night before the event.)
The highly recognizied designer, Varney often speaks of his mentor, Dorothy Draper, with warmth, kindness and admiration as he did Friday in Las Vegas. I had to know more about this lady. So I searched.
Varney is quoted in an article on the design legend Draper, saying "Dorothy was to decorating what Chanel was to fashion." Draper, the first lady of interior decorating made her breakthrough in the world of design with the use of bold and bright colors, oversize prints and her anti-Minimalistic philosophy starting in the 1930's. Varney told Architectural Digest, " She took a world that was drab and dreary and made it colorful." Curious me read the complete article and several others, and became fascinated with Draper and Varney.
Here is the link: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/. Next type Dorothy Draper in AD's search box and it takes you right to several articles with photos on this fascinating woman.
You can view the Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc. site too. Learn more about the woman who started it all and the gentleman, Carleton Varney, who carried on the company name and Draper's philosophy of bright colors, floral flourishes and monumental-size design accomplishments. Varney is known for countless restoration and hotels projects around the world, his versatile line of lamps, dinnerware, crystal and linen designs and...his own line of fabric designs: Varney by the Yard. http://www.dorothydraper.com/
More on the Draper Style coming.