Sister: The Life Of The Legendary American Interior Decorator, Mrs Henry Parish II

St Martin's Press, New York, 2000. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Acknowledgements, foreword by Albert Hadley, epilogue and notes on the contributors. Illustrated end pages being a green coloured photograph of fabric design. Black and white photographic frontispiece of Mrs Henry Parrish II with her Pekinese Yummy. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs throughout the text, eight pages of black and white grafts between pages 70 and 71 and a section of eight pages of coloured photographs between pages 198 and 199. Bottle green coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with black and dark green coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Colour photograph of authors to the rear fold over panel. The biography of Mrs Henry Parrish II – known to friends as Sister. In this book her daughter and her granddaughter go behind the enormously successful interior decorating business she created – Parrish - Hadley – which was indispensable to American aristocracy. She transformed houses of the Rockefellers, Astors and Whitneys, where she became an indispensable presence. The authors show an enormously charismatic woman who helped redefine American decor and decorators for generations. A softening of the backstrip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Age toning of the textblock edges and pages; with a little foxing to the top text edge. A little creasing of the dustwrapper edges and rubbing of the panels. A hint of fading to the backstrip with some light foxing to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [19], XX - XXIII, [4], 2 - 357, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Interior Design; United States; Home Decorating & Repair. ISBN: 0312242409. ISBN/EAN: 9780312242404. Inventory No: 0130427. . 9780312242404