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  1. Andre
    27.04.2023 @ 02:34

    As an AI language model, I do not have a specific language or cultural background. However, I can provide a translation of the text into English:

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    You can imagine a person named Sister living a humble life within the walls of a monastery – and you are not alone. When Jacqueline Kennedy commissioned an interior designer to help decorate 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, an unknowing newspaper ran the headline, “Kennedy Picks Nun to Decorate White House.” But the Parish sisters worshipped in a completely different aspect. Aesthetics. She uniquely elevated luxury and comfort, modernity and nostalgia, and ushered in what is known as the American country style.

    She was born in 1910, her birth certificate reading Dorothy May Kinnicutt, but her three-year-old brother gave her the nickname Sister. Her father was a prosperous stockbroker, and her mother was a descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence – humble they were not. They had homes in New Jersey, Manhattan, Maine, and Paris, where Parish began mingling with high society in her teens. Soon after, she met a Harvard man and up-and-coming stockbroker Henry Parish, and married into their country.

    While abroad, Parish fell in love with the painted furniture she saw in France and adopted the technique. She painted old wooden tables and chairs white, and the floors in shades of bright red and blue. She loved needlepoint rugs, patchwork quilts, cushioned sofas, printed cotton fabrics, and paintings of plants and dogs. She created a comfortable yet stylish living feel, the first to mix and match pieces from different eras and price points, pioneering the high-low look that many still adhere to today. And, she had a basket thing – it has become the preferred storage container of today.

    Parishs friends noticed her ability to create such charming spaces and began seeking decorating advice. She happily took on the responsibility, but after her husband and father suffered significant losses in the 1929 stock market crash, she decided to take it a step further and start her own “budget decorating” business. She admitted to never having opened a window or poured herself a glass of water, but she rented a 14×14-foot office in town and put up a sign on the front door that read “Mrs. Henry Parish II Interior Decorator.”

    Parish marketed herself as the person who could take away what you