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Art: Architecture/Design The High Style of Dorothy Draper

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An illustrious American interior decorator from the Jazz Age through the '60s, Dorothy Draper lived to bedazzle, with a bold, unabashed style and an almost baroque extravagance. Over the years, she became a hotel-makeover queen, enlisted to redo (or "Draperize," as it were) New York's Carlyle, DC's Mayflower, and Hollywood's Arrowhead Springs Hotel. Fitted into multihued galleries inspired by Draper's over-the-top sensibility, her retrospective at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale has sundry gems for your viewing pleasure: rare drawings, furnishings, vintage photographs, sample books, and products featured in some of her better-known projects, including the Drake Hotel in Chicago and the Greenbrier in West Virginia.

– Omar Sommereyns