title: Elsie De Wolfe: A Decorative Life: (Panache)
author:  Nina Campbell 
description: olorful overview of contemporary interior design with the riveting life and times of the founding mother of the decorating profession. In a fresh format, engagingly written, and chockablock with photographs and color renderings of de Wolfe's own work and of contemporary rooms that echo her ideas, this book presents a stylish view of a truly unique woman. &lt;b&gt;Illustrations.&lt;/b&gt;
zlib_text: For	Margie	Holahan—
  a	friend	for	all	seasons
  XO
  
  Contents
  Part	One	Provisions
  August	19,	2006	•	6:30	A.M.
  Part	Two	The	Dinner	Party
  August	19,	2006	•	6:32	P.M.
  A	Reading	Group	Gold	Selection
  In	Her	Own	Words
  Food	for	Thought
  Keep	on	Reading
  Reading	Group	Questions
  
  Part	One
  Provisions
  
  August	19,	2006	•	6:30	A.M.
  Marguerite	didn’t	know	where	to	start.
  Each	and	every	summer	evening	for	nearly	twenty	years,	she	had	cooked
  for	 a	 restaurant	 full	 of	 people,	 yet	 here	 she	 was	 in	 her	 own	 kitchen	 on	 a
  crystalline	 morning	 with	 a	 seemingly	 simple	 mission—dinner	 for	 two	 that
  evening	at	seven	thirty—and	she	didn’t	know	where	to	start.	Her	mind	spun
  like	the	pedals	of	a	bicycle	without	any	brakes.	Candace	coming	here,	after	all
  these	years.	Immediately	Marguerite	corrected	herself.	Not	Candace.	Candace
  was	dead.	Renata	was	coming	tonight.	The	baby.
  Marguerite’s	hands	quivered	as	she	brought	her	coffee	mug	to	her	lips.
  The	 grandfather	 clock	 chimed	 just	 as	 it	 had	 every	