Carlton Varney Featured at First Friday Event

November 23, 2008  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Las Vegas on November 2008 Interior and restoration designer Carlton Varney will be the featured speaker Friday, Dec. 5 during First Friday at the Las Vegas Design Center at World Market Center Las Vegas.

Varney will speak from 10 to 11:30 a.m. during the monthly event for the design community in the Las Vegas Design Center (C-184) of World Market Center.

Varney is president of New York-based Dorothy Draper & Co. Inc., one of the oldest established interior design firms in the United States, named after the company founder who was one of the doyennes of interior design from the 1920s to the 1960s. Continuing Draper’s tradition, his design philosophy stresses the use of bright colors and the rejection of all that is impractical, uncomfortable and drab.

Varney plans to share his history, recount stories about celebrity clients, offer design tips, and cover the topic of design as a business.

Following his presentation, attendees are invited to join Varney and his colleague, Brinsley Matthews of the European office of Dorothy Draper, in the Robert Allen/Beacon Hill showroom (C-101) where he’ll sign copies of his “illustrated memoir,” Houses In My Heart, amidst the Dorothy Draper Collection of furniture by Kindel Furniture Company.

To R.S.V.P. or for more information on either First Friday seminar, e-mail LVDC@LVDesignCenter.com or call (702) 599-3093.