Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl was an American actress who became a prominent interior designer and author. Born in New York City, de Wolfe was acutely sensitive to her surroundings from her earliest year
Elsie de Wolfe, 1914
Elsie de Wolfe, photograph from The House in Good Taste, 1913
A room designed by Elsie de Wolfe (color photograph from The House in Good Taste, 1913)
Bessie Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe (from My Crystal Ball, 1923)
Anne Tracy Morgan was an American philanthropist who provided relief efforts in aid to France during and after World War I and II. Morgan was educated privately, traveled frequently and grew up amongs
Elsie de Wolfe
…1926 until her death in 1950), the press often referred to her as Lady Mendl. Among de Wolfe's distinguished clients were Anne Harriman Vanderbilt, Anne Morgan, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Henry Clay and Adelaide Frick. She transformed the interiors of wealthy clients' homes from dark wood, heavily…
Interior of Elsie De Wolfe' music pavilion looking out on to the pool, The Villa Trianon, William Bruce Ellis Ranken
Underwood & Underwood Studios, New York City/LOC cph.3b45075. Anne Morgan, wearing fur stole, ca. 1915
Anne Morgan and Anne Murray Dike, ca. 1915