The House in Good Taste is Elsie de Wolfe’s influential guide to interior decoration, written by the woman often called America’s first professional decorator. Rejecting the dark clutter of the Victorian interior, de Wolfe championed light, simplicity, comfort, and unity of design, treating the decoration of a home as an art with definite principles.
Room by room, she discusses color, furniture, light, and the disposition of space, illustrating her ideas with examples from her own celebrated work. The book helped establish interior decoration as a respected profession and shaped American domestic taste for decades. Practical, opinionated, and elegant, it remains a landmark in the history of design and a charming window onto the making of the modern interior.