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Interior Decorator & Socialite Elsie de Wolfe Signature ON NOTEPAGE SIGNED Elsie de Wolfe Mendl Villa Trianon VERSAILLES 1936 She was Born December 20 186523 – July 12 1950 was an American actress interior Decorator

26758 — UNBOUND Piece of Paper Signature on page of Elsie de Wolfe. Signature and paper are in GOOD condition heavy glue mounting stains on back of page. SIGNED NOTE Elsie de Wolfe Signature ON NOTEPAGE SIGNED Elsie de Wolfe Mendl Villa Trianon VERSAILLES 1936 IN BLUE INK She was Born December 20 186523 – July 12 1950 was an American actress interior decorator nominal author of the influential 1913 book The House in Good Taste4 and a prominent figure in New York Paris and London society. According to The New Yorker "Interior Design as a profession was invented by Elsie de Wolfe."5 During her married life the press usually referred to her as Lady Mendl. De Wolfe's 1926 marriage to diplomat Sir Charles Mendl was page-one news in the New York Times. Shortly after her marriage she scandalized French diplomatic society when she attended a fancy-dress ball dressed as a Moulin Rouge dancer and made her entrance turning handsprings In 1926 the New York Times described de Wolfe as "one of the most widely known women in New York social life" and in 1935 as "prominent in Paris society." Her morning exercises were famous. In her 1935 autobiography de Wolfe wrote that her daily regimen at age 70 included yoga standing on her head and walking on her hands. Signed by Author. Unbound. paperback