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 ...

and a sunken ballroom designed by decorating great Elsie de Wolfe. Known as “Homewood,” the 22-room house on Country Club Road is one of the few remaining 18th – or 19th-century shingle ...