Schumacher takes a look at the women of How They Decorated and how to "Get The Look" with their Fabrics. The piece looks at Pauline de Rothschild's Mouton Library, and her workroom in Paris, along with the Baroness- the bedroom of Bunny Mellon's Antigua villa and offers selections from their extensive line of classic and modern collections.
HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
House Beautiful's May issue gives a Master Class from How They Decorated rooms with quotes.
Modern Luxury Interiors California
A look at How They Decorated in Modern Luxury Interiors here.
HOUSE & GARDEN UK
VOGUE
Read Vogue.com's review of the book & take a look at the beautiful slide show here.
This week, How They Decorated, an extensive and visually-attuned look inside the homes of great 20th century women, was published. The book, which is written by P. Gaye Tapp, is divided into four distinct sections—Legacy Style, In the Grand Manner, The Fashionably Chic, and The Unconventional Eye. That’s a weighty set of sections to live up to, but from visionary artists (Georgia O’Keeffe), to green-thumbed socialites (Bunny Mellon), the book more than covers the gambit of stylish women.
1st DIBS Introspective
Pilar Viladas writes the How They Decorated story with a breakdown of the book's form and an interview about the book. Read it at 1st Dibs Introspective Magazine here.
The Glam Pad
Blog The Glam Pad takes a look at How They Decorated here.
The Times UK
"The life of these “swans”, almost all dead now, is coming up for review in a series of books about their lives. They’re so remote from the expectations of 21st-century girls, they could be Elizabethans. Their stories started with fashion-land books about how they looked and what they wore, and their extraordinary ladies-who-lunch lives. Now the focus has moved to their houses — because these dames had houses across the country, and across continents, like other women had pairs of shoes...This interior rediscovery is starting with P Gaye Tapp’s How They Decorated, which shows what those houses looked like and how their owners lived."