Private social clubs have had a resurgence in recent years. At a time when people have been increasingly working from home or ...
American interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe (also known as Lady Mendl) was an original in more ways than one. Believed to have ...
This week, we’re paying tribute to Elsie de Wolfe, a remarkable woman who paved the way for today’s interior designers. If you’ve ever arranged a group of chairs “so people can talk”, or ...
For the past seventy years Lady Mendl has always been well known for something—principally for being Miss Elsie de Wolfe. When she was a child in the then stylish West Thirty-fourth Street ...
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