Ah, the age-old question. Although I am at least a few years removed from childhood, I’m still searching for the answer. Aren’t you? Even middle-aged Barbie has posed the question over 126 times. Last week, I was invited to reflect upon my answer as a guest speaker during the career fair at the Washington Middle [...]
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Candace Wheeler, 1827-1923: Entrepreneur, Artist, and Founder of American Interior Design
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged #wmnhist, Candace Wheeler, entrepreneur, interior design, Louis Comfort Tiffany, National Women's History Month, Society of Decorative Arts, Tiffany & Wheeler, Women's Building, Women's History Month on March 2, 2010, | 2 Comments »
When you set out to break through barriers, the secret to your success just might be that you don’t see the barriers in the first place. Candace Thurber Wheeler founded the Society of Decorative Arts in New York in 1877 to help the thousands of women who were left indigent at the end of the [...]
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