Celebrated designer Dorothy Draper has long been an inspiration to Lauren McGrath: "I continue to be in awe of her completely original take on traditional interiors," the writer of Good Bones, Great Pieces says, "the way she combined graphic floral patterns, strong colors, and stripes." Evoking her idol's iconoclastic spirit, McGrath decorated a formal dinner party, thrown on the lawn of her family's Westchester County, New York, home with an artful mix. Here's how she did it.
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