名称误导教会的女士的妹妹教区不过相信装饰的神力,治疗功效的魅力和浪漫。60年来她的味道,从来没有放松她强大的控制一种舒适的有钱的外观,丰富的一部分,传下来的一部分。
她无可否认的经验丰富的英国乡村房子美学和预言家Colefax,约翰·福勒和南希·兰开斯特,她和美国仍是一个原始(原来也在某种意义上,她不能完全被复制)。她是一次非常复古,永远fashionable-nostalgia远非唯一注意被袭击了这里。她解释说:“创新的能力往往是进入过去,带回来什么是好的,什么是美,什么是有用的,什么是持久的。”
她的内部通常是清新自然的,unself-conscious, unstrained-perhaps因为,一起在拉的房间里,她沿着通常简单地“感觉”。事实上,准确和谨慎Parsons-trained阿尔伯特·哈德利,自1964年以来姐姐教区在著名的伙伴,她的口语风格的工作“巴洛克风格”和“随心所欲”。What, then, was the secret of her rooms' glinting radiance? Their ingredients were repeatedly these: floors elaborately painted and stained; Anglo-Franco furniture that had seen good—but definitely not better—days; flashes and flares of daredevil color (yet she always knew how not to go too far); masses and slashes of luscious chintz (nobody could bring a room to flower better than Sister Parish); crocheted throws and needlepoint pillows and chair covers; humble mattress ticking for slipcovers; hooked rugs and rag rugs; starched organdy; botanical prints; painted lampshades; dog paintings; exotic-wood bookcases; white wicker; patches of quilts; and bales of baskets.
妹妹教区的房间里溢出,但是心情愉快地。这是浪漫和异想天开的但不伤感;总是,是点燃地毯可能奥布松,镜子齐本德尔和吊灯沃特福德,但她削弱这些与各种各样的“品牌”迷人的干扰。
她的客厅住:他们友好的世界——“四个舒适40、舒适。”And her bedrooms, Billy Baldwin raved, were "the most attractive, seductive, and luxurious ... of any decorator in America ... simply the best thing that has ever been in the history of the art." Her libraries, sitting rooms, and morning rooms also had a convincingness, a depth as well as a warmth, looking as if they had evolved naturally around their owners over time. Not only were the objects and pieces of furniture themselves occasionally offbeat and frequently arranged offhand, they were sometimes even actually placed off-center, for Sister Parish believed that, as someone once said, "to be perfect the perfect must be imperfect." Nonpareil, then, in tenor, timber, and tone (undertones being as important to her as overtones), they were all rooms in which the center held.
1910年她出生多萝西可能Kinnicutt(昵称的妹妹给她的弟弟,卡)在新泽西州狩猎的核心国家,相同的四柱,她仍然睡在一个octogenarian-continuity运行主题在她的生活和她的工作。在纽约和她的父母保持立足点在缅因州,另一个强大的终生影响,立足在巴黎,所以她被暴露和disposed-early艺术品和古董。但她的品味和判断都是天生的,而不是学习。她会第一个告诉你,她开始“知道”很少,没有读一本关于装饰或任何类型的学徒。她参加了查宾特,使她首次亮相,并爱上了亨利教区II, 19岁时嫁给了她。他们搬到一个白色的小农舍在山,新泽西,在那里,已经本能的“生活方式”的先驱,她没有时间在应用白色条纹纸墙,使用白色窗帘床垫布,粉刷卧室的地板上樱桃红与白色钻石,和白色的真丝塔夫绸覆盖床边界的花朵。
三年后,当大萧条打击她的丈夫和她父亲的资产,她做了一件闻所未闻的圆和去上班。租14-by-14-foot房间远山以35美元一个月,她用柳条椅和桌子和装备立了一个牌子,说“亨利太太教区II,内部。”(Affronted at the thought of having a relation in trade, Harry Parish's aunt disinherited him in favor of her cousin Eleanor Roosevelt.) Friends—not to mention friends of friends—enchanted by what she had done with her own house, appealed to her for help with theirs, and soon Sister Parish was out of the gate and off and running.
在接下来的几十年里她的客户名单等响亮的名字阿斯特环,范德比尔特,惠特尼,佩利,梅隆,盖蒂,恩格尔哈德,安嫩伯格,布朗和洛克菲勒。最亲密地,肯尼迪。年轻的乔治城的房子装修后麻萨诸塞州的联邦参议员和他的妻子、妹妹再次保留通过杰奎琳·肯尼迪做夫妇家庭的居住在白宫,包括椭圆形二楼客厅,总统喜欢接收外国政要。但美国第一夫人的装饰,用来与国家元首举行自己的国家的第一夫人被解雇的告诉小卡洛琳把她的脚从室内装潢。
妹妹轮流教区是亲切和耐心;她是著名的严厉,可以令人难堪地重点。她的自定义的任何项目,确定和整齐的脚步声,车轮一个茶车穿过房子,清除它未能让她切的小摆设。多少恐吓客户举行他们的呼吸,姐姐的决定茶车滚动走过来!
