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The interior designer made his buoyant mark in spaces across the South, from the Greenbrier resort to presidential homes

Longtime Daily News columnist Carleton Varney, who wrote\u00a0the popular\u00a0Your Family Decorator\u00a0column, died\u00a0July 14. Here is a collection of his columns.

At its meeting Wednesday, Palm Beachs Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a new set of renovations for the historic Colony hotel.

The internationally known interior designer who owned the Dorothy Draper firm wrote a column for the Shiny Sheet for more than 40 years

Carleton Varney, the ebullient interior designer whose enthusiastic use of color in hotels, castles, palaces and the habitats of film and theater roya

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He was trained by the maximalist decorator Dorothy Draper, who favored bold colors, and he inherited her aversion to the bland and the beige.

Carleton Varney, a renowned interior decorator whose love of audacious colors defied convention in the all-too-often cookie cutter world of hotel

Carleton Varney, founder of Carleton V Ltd. and president of Dorothy Draper & Co., died July 14. He was 85.

The iconic designer fondly nicknamed “Mr. Color” has died at 85.