Dior and His Decorators - Maureen Footer

Dior and His Decorators is the first work on the two interior
designers most closely associated with Christian Dior. Like the
unabashedly luxurious fashions of Dior's New Look, which debuted
in 1947, the interior designs of Victor Grandpierre and Georges
Geffroy infused a war-weary world with a sumptuous new aesthetic
- a melding of the refined traditions of the past with a wholly
modern sense of elegance.
Author Maureen Footer recounts the
lives and work of this influential trio, illustrated with a trove of
evocative vintage photographs. Grandpierre designed Dior's first
couture house, creating not only the elegantly restrained look of the
salons but also the template for the Dior brand, including typeface,
logo, and packaging. Both Grandpierre and Geffroy (who worked
independently) designed the interior of Dior's townhouse. After the
couturier's untimely death in 1957, Grandpierre and Geffroy went
on to design salons for other couturiers, as well as homes for the
likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Marcel Rochas, Gloria Guinness, Daisy
Fellowes, and Maria Callas.