Mrs. Draper was an oracle who encouraged everyone to find their true selves. She offered a correspondence course called ‘Learn To Live”, in which she extorted ‘to realize that only being kind to yourself you can be really kind to others”. Has there ever being a decorator as famous as Dorothy Draper? Perhaps not. Draper’s fame was hard-earned and based on her originality as a stylist and her daring. Her fabrics and wallpapers are overblown, exhilaratingly wild, vivid, theatrical, cheerful that delight and amuse.

Harper’s Bazaar in 1941 stated “She uses logic in her own way and not as a limitation. She has stood art, nature, history, and geography on their ears when necessary in order to obtain from them her special personal refreshing effects’.

Mrs. Draper’s belief in the importance of color never wavered “Now we all know that lovely clear colors have a vital effect on our mental happiness. Modern doctors and psychiatrists are convinced of this!”“Look ahead plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.”

Today our Dorothy Draper Fabrics and wallcoverings embody all the DNA of our founder. Mrs. Draper’s protégée, Carleton Varney has continued her vision for over 54 years expanding our line and creating new deigns for prints, wovens and wallpapers.

We are the past, the now and the future. That is who we are. The fun is in the doing!