[5] Her shop sold Bromo-Seltzer bottles and empty candy boxes alongside fine French furniture.
"[8] She was known for chinoiserie,[8] displayed in the Chinese wallpapers of her often-photographed drawing room, and for baroque and rococo Venetian, South German and Austrian furniture,[5] at a time when conservative New York tastes ran to Louis XV and English Georgian furnishings.
In Cumming's own town house, the living room had early-eighteenth-century hand-painted Chinese wallpaper with a silvery background and Louis XV furniture.
[6] At the top of her townhouse was the infamous “Ugly Room” filled with predatory images of snakes, vultures, boars and monkeys.
Her sister Eileen Cecil, a former editor of Harpers Bazaar, stylist, and advertising force in her own right, carried on the business after Cumming's death in 1968.