Edith Wharton and Brooke Astor grew up more than a generation apart, and although they never met, their lives seem to touch. Both were grandes dames who hobnobbed with presidents (Wharton with Teddy ...
Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author famous for novels set in the late 19th century, also wrote an influential book on interior design, long considered a sort of bible of American decorating ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Edith Wharton knows houses. Her first published book was “The Decoration of Houses,” written with Ogden Codman, Jr., which argued for “house-decoration as a branch of architecture,” and against “the ...
LENOX — Most of us have read at least one Edith Wharton's novel, right? For those of you who answered in the affirmative, how many of you immediately answered either the "House of Mirth," "Ethan Frome ...
Since Edith Wharton's death in 1937, biographies of the great early 20th-century novelist have gone through several perhaps predictable phases: sanitized, slightly dismissive, even vindictive (by her ...
On a short winter day, Edith Wharton is writing a novel. She has recently come to this light stone or stucco house in a row of houses, on a tree-lined street a few miles north of Paris. The French ...
In his new book, Thomas Jayne argues that Wharton’s fundamental ideas about proportion and the planning of space still create the most harmonious and livable interiors, whether traditional or ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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