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i stumbled upon this picture on, 2thewalls... read more here.... if this room could talk...

angelo donghia.

"A designer who may be termed either a traditional modernist or a modern traditionalist, depending on the particular project (or on one’s point of view), Angelo Donghia was a man of many talents, and several business. At a time when fashion designers were beginning to introduce ‘signature collections,’ he was the first, and for a time the only, interior designer to put his name on a production furniture line. One of this most notable and much-cited innovation was to use ordinary men’s suiting for upholstery and wall covering, earning him the sobriquet ‘the grey flannel prince.’