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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Florence de Dampierre is truly a renaissance woman. She is an author, interior designer, lecturer, wife, homemaker, noted entertainer and cook, and person of enormous visual and personal style and energy. In her mid - 40's, Ms. de Dampierre was raised in Paris and currently resides in Manhattan and in Litchfield County, CT in an exquisite 18th century home. Ms. de Dampierre is distinguished in many areas. She is a noted interior designer and furniture historian. As an author, her best seller, The Best of Painted Furniture, published 15 years ago (Rizzoli International), is respected as one of the finest books on the topic having sold several hundred thousand copies and still remains in print. She has been a contributing editor to House & Garden magazine, written several newspaper and magazine articles and has in fact, been the subject of many articles herself. Florence de Dampierre Antiques, which she began in 1985 in New York City, was the first American antique shop devoted to 18th & 19th century painted furniture. The shop received great accolades, grew to a multimillion dollar enterprise housed in its own building in Soho by 1990 with a worldwide clientele and was the subject of a New York Magazine cover story in 1990. She has been a contributing designer to House & Garden magazine, has designed rooms for the French Designer Show House and maintains a select roster of personal clients. She has lectured at museums around the country including the Museum of the City of New York, and the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT and has curated shows at the Caramoor Museum in Katonah, NY. In 1992 she was included in Eleanor Lambert's Best Dressed List as one of the twelve best dressed woman in the world. Ms. de Dampierre is also the mother of two sons and a daughter.
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