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“Spread out over 11,000 acres; The Greenbrier is a combination
hotel/resort/recreation center/sports center/luxury sporting

community/shopping mall/casino. ”

Horseback riding is among the dozens of
resort activities. Left: Grand, be-flowered
entryway to The Greenbrier resort in
White Sulphur Springs, WVA..

olding complimentary flutes of ed this place,” Jody exuded, “Liberace? I love it! It
champagne at check-in, we take it looks like they raided my closet.”
Hall in. The entryway’s massive Greek
It turns out the decorator was Dorothy Draper,
columns, the colossal crystal chandeliers, the
famed founder of the country’s first interior design
grand spiraling staircases, the exuberant explo-
company who, in 1948, brought her “Modern Ba-
sion of flowers everywhere: in the carpets, the
roque” style – curlicues meet stripes, pink meet
wallpaper, the curtains, the doors.
turquoise -- to The Greenbrier, the ornate colossus
It’s a floral fever dream, and one of us feels of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
like she’s gone to flower heaven. “Who decorat-

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