Rose Cumming defined glamour in the Golden Age with her ardor for bold colors, striking designs and her talent for juxtaposing different styles and eras. She brought color to chintz and invented metallic wallcoverings. Her idiosyncratic, set-like designs became synonymous with 1920s style.
Operating out of her famous New York shop, she was one of the founding doyennes of today's interior design industry and a unique blend of practicality and eccentricity. For example, though she kept the shop lights on overnight at her Fifth Avenue shop (to help draw attention to the store even after hours), she personally didn’t like electricity and so lived by candlelight at home.
Her style contributions live on in the striking colorways of her textiles and the timeless exuberance of her interiors, which have influenced designers from Jamie Drake to Kelly Wearstler. “Parrots are blue and green,” Ms. Cumming remarked. “Why shouldn’t fabrics be?”
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Image courtesy Architectural Digest. Info courtesy Dessin Fournir, Rose Cumming Design and Architectural Digest. Thanks to House Beautiful for the inspiration!
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