Carol Prisant, an elegant design writer who was the New York editor of the idiosyncratic British magazine The World of Interiors, died on April 9 at a hospital in Manhattan. There was no such position, but Ms. Hogg, famously spontaneous, wrote her back anyway, and offered her a job as a writer. Ms. Prisant was 51. She would go to write about the wealthy and the eccentric, and those who helped them nest. But she never got the memo, as the longtime American magazine editor Stephen Drucker put it, that you weren’t supposed to write what you really felt in a decorating magazine.

Source: New York Times April 15, 2021 23:03 UTC