o The first complete monograph on the renowned designer Carleton Varney's forty-year career o New photography was especially commissioned from Michel Arnaud, the internationally recognized interiors and portrait photographer o Houses in My Heart was designed by Stafford Cliff who has been responsible for the striking look of many of the best selling titles in the Pointed Leaf Press list Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Carleton Varney moved to New York shortly after graduating from Oberlin College and soon came into his own as a decorator at the prestigious firm of Dorothy Draper & Company Inc. under the guidance of and mentoring by the famous Mrs. Draper herself. Since the mid 1960s, when he took over the company, he has kept it operating as one of the oldest continuing decorating firms in the United States. Longtime clients include the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, in Michigan. Early and loyal-for-decades clients such as show business stars Joan Crawford and Ethel Merman were followed by dozens of clients who all gravitated to his personality as well as his luxurious, bold, and glamorous rooms. In this book, over two dozen of his best, most original, and never published before projects - including his own private residences - are documented in Michel Arnaud's striking and evocative photographs.
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Carleton Varney grew up in Nahant, Massachusetts. His parents loved to garden and one of his greatest influences was living among the natural colors of flowers. Varney graduated from Oberlin College, where he majored in Spanish with dreams of becoming an ambassador. His studies took him to the University of Madrid and Europe. There he was forever impressed by the simplistic cottages as well as the magnificent cathedrals and palatial interiors he visited. Upon returning to New York in 1962, he earned a Masters Degree in Education from New York University and later joined the decorating firm of Dorothy Draper and Company, Inc. Now forty years after becoming the company's president, he still imbues each design with a color-filled imagination. Varney writes a regular syndicated column that appears in the Palm Beach Daily News. He has published twenty-seven books on decorating, penned two novels, and written the official biography of Dorothy Draper. He has been the design consultant to the White House, decorated Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel, and now serves as the curator and designer to the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. He appears often on his live HSN television show, Live Vividly, and has just released his first CD, Music with Style, for Rick Dees Entertainment. Mr. Varney resides in New York and Palm Beach.
Carleton Varney has done a fantastic job showcasing his latest book. Each and every page is filled with color, color and more color. This book makes me want to make over my home, one room at a time. Just beautiful!
