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    Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl (née Ella Anderson de Wolfe; December 20, c. 1859 – July 12, 1950) was an American actress who became a very prominent interior...
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    1892, Marbury had been living openly in a lesbian relationship with Elsie de Wolfe (later known as Lady Mendl), a prominent socialite and famous interior...
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    decorator and socialite Elsie De Wolfe and theatrical/literary agent Elisabeth Marbury. Morgan was instrumental in assisting De Wolfe, her close friend, in...
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  • director and writer in the United States Elsie Wingrove (1923–2016), Canadian baseball player Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950), pioneering professional interior...
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    working in the manner advocated by its authors, most notably Elsie de Wolfe. Elsie De Wolfe was one of the first interior designers. Rejecting the Victorian...
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    with Edgar's sister, the French designer Elsie de Wolfe. The marriage between Winifred (senior) and Edgar de Wolfe was short-lived, and she again remarried...
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    Scheips, Elsie de Wolfe's Paris - frivolity before the storm, New York, Abrams Books, 2014, 159 pages, page 69 PDF file of the Book Elsie de Wolfe's Paris...
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    portrait by Burr McIntosh for Munseys Magazine The Other Girl(1903) with Elsie De Wolfe, Frank Worthing and Lionel Barrymore (NY Public Library Billy Rose collection)...
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  • Maugham's glamorous rooms influenced almost every designer, particularly Elsie de Wolfe, Jean-Michel Frank, and Frances Elkins. After Maugham closed her New...
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    is attributed to the interior architect and prominent society figure Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950), but the recipe associated with her nevertheless clearly...
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    official recognition from the French government. Probably at a party of Elsie de Wolfe he met Linda Lee Thomas and through her, her husband, Cole Porter. Eventually...
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    hair was taken up by the first professional interior designer, Lady Elsie De Wolfe Mendl, which started a new fad. He created the “garconne” hairstyle...
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    arbiters of fashion as Alexandra of Denmark, wife of Edward VII, and Elsie de Wolfe, popular American interior decorator. Later, they were owned by Rumer...
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    Maryland. The interiors, which exist largely unchanged, were created by Elsie de Wolfe – later to become Lady Mendl – a former actress who had recently opened...
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  • spending time in Hollywood, he became a close friend of interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl. A mural on the walls of the Carlyle Hotel's Bemelmans Bar...
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    from speaking in Paris in June 1939. Mendl married interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe in 1926, at which point he was head of the press section in the British...
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    Achieve the Professional Look (2000) Nina Campbell On Decorating (1996) Elsie De Wolfe: A Decorative Life: (Panache) (1992) "(Henrietta) Nina Sylvia CAMPBELL"...
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    Greene and Greene designs. The interior of the house was designed by Elsie de Wolfe and the San Francisco design house of Vickery, Atkins and Torrey. When...
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  • Chris DeWolfe (born 1966), American entrepreneur Elsie de Wolfe (1859–1950), American actress, interior decorator, and society figure Harry DeWolf (1903–2000)...
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  • Miss Elsie De Wolfe is Almost a Vegetarian in Winter and Almost a Vegetable Gardener in Summer. New-York Tribune (5 April 1903). "The Tour de France...
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    decorators working in the manner advocated by its authors, most notably Elsie de Wolfe. The book was reprinted by The Mount and Rizzoli and in a hardcover...
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    decorated and updated throughout the years by Marilyn Johnson Tucker, Elsie De Wolfe, Marjorie Requa, Tony Duquette, and Kathryn Crawford. During the 1920s...
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    him to a social elite in Manhattan that included interior designer Elsie de Wolfe and architect Stanford White. As a result, "Shinn did a number of murals...
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    (between the late 19th and early 20th century) include Elsie De Wolfe, Rose Cumming, Nancy McClelland, Elsie Cobb Wilson, Francis Elkins, Surie Maugham and Dorothy...
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    Cierplikowski), dyed his dog's hair blue. An influential client, Lady Elsie De Wolfe Mendl, took up the same style and this started a new fad. Later in the...
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  • man to many beautiful star actresses i.e. Elsie de Wolfe, Maxine Elliott, Ethel Barrymore, Marie Doro and Elsie Ferguson. He appeared in two silent motion...
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    building. In the early- and mid-20th century, several designers, such as Elsie de Wolfe and Cecil Beaton, were hired to design special suites for the hotel...
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    the summer in 1939, Devi was a guest of honour at a party hosted by Elsie de Wolfe. Devi died in 2002. Her grandson is the jewellery designer Hanut Singh...
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  • actor Elsie de Wolfe (1859–1950), American actress and interior decorator Margaret De Wolfe (1881–1956), English stage and film actress Meyer de Wolfe (1887–1964)...
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    18th-century furniture (much of it acquired for him by the American decorator Elsie de Wolfe and the Paris decorator Stéphane Boudin) were seized by the bank. As...
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