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Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl (née Ella Anderson de Wolfe; December 20, c. 1859 – July 12, 1950) was an American actress who became a very prominent interior designer and author.
Elsie de Wolfe, American interior decorator, hostess, and actress, best known for her innovative and anti-Victorian interiors. Her first commission, the interior of the Colony Club in New York, demonstrated her signature principles of design: simplicity, airiness, and visual unity.
Jan 23, 2024 · Elsie de Wolfe, born Ella Anderson de Wolfe and later known as Lady Mendl, was a pioneering American interior designer, actress, and socialite. Born in 1859 in New York City, she grew up in a fashionable family and spent her early years in Scotland, leading to her presentation at Queen Victoria’s court in 1883.
Dec 31, 1999 · By Edgar Munhall. December 31, 1999. Though dead for half a century, Elsie de Wolfe remains an icon to this day, revered as America’s first decorator. The key elements of her style are as fresh...
Jul 11, 2018 · Elsie de Wolfe was an interior decorator before there was such a thing. And if she wasn’t making headlines for covering 18th century footstools in leopard print, she was in the newspapers for her eccentric blue hair, her affinity for small dogs (see here, here, and here), and unique preferences for physical fitness.
Interior decorator, Elsie de Wolfe, was born in New York in 1865 and died in France in 1950. She spent her early life in New York and, when her father – a Nova Scotian doctor – died she became a professional actress to make a living.
Nov 23, 2020 · In the second-to-last episode, meet Elsie de Wolfe, America's first professional interior designer, who decorated the Frick's Fifth Avenue home. #WhatsHerStory “Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe).”
Mar 8, 2022 · Elsie de Wolfe, also known as Lady Mendl, was both a close friend of Isabella’s and a pioneering interior decorator. Gardner—who had her own aesthetic—did not hire de Wolfe to design her homes. She likely bought the table as a way to support both a friend and a female professional.
Mar 28, 2018 · A New York actress who dressed much better than she performed turned self-taught, headline-making, hard-nosed, ferociously Francophile aesthete, de Wolfe (a.k.a. Lady Mendl) personified ...
Espousing a philosophy of simplicity, suitability, and proportion, she turned the design world upside down with her innovations—cotton chintz, mirrors, trellises, painted furniture, and decoupage. De Wolfe was also a legendary character, a master of self-invention, and one of the first international celebrities.
