“Painted Fire to Make It Look Like Wood! Is It a Joke?”: Brazil’s Lavish Hotel that Received the Most Expensive Decoration in the World

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Pearl Harbor had just been bombed and New York decorator Dorothy Draper was trying to get to the idea of a world without Japanese silk. In Europe, the war had already forced many of her colleagues to close their businesses and, when a week after the bombing she saw herself explaining to the New York Times how to make homemade esters with duct tape to prevent possible night attacks, the mother of the modern Baroque knew that also in the United St…