Origins: From Ladies’ Mile to the White House Schumacher’s story begins in boom-time New York. In 1889, Paris-born Frederic Schumacher opened his textile house on Manhattan’s Ladies’ Mile, supplying silks and damasks to the grand hotels and Gilded Age mansions that were inventing a new American glamour. Within a decade the firm was manufacturing domestically;Continue reading “Schumacher: A House Woven Into American Design”
My World of Interiors 