Happy birthday to the “Mother” of interior design and one of America’s first woman interior and textile designers, Candace Wheeler. Born on March 24, 1827 (but often mis-dated March 27th), she grew up on a farm in Delhi, New York with her seven siblings. Wheeler’s life went through dramatic transformation: her early years were “a hundred years behind the time” in a strict Presbyterian household, but her latter years were spent in jazz-age New York City after decades of being “working woman”, paving the way for women in design.
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