Statements on design, 1960s-1970s
Scope and Contents
Four documents (three typescripts, probably working drafts of speeches, and one handwritten draft, possibly also of a speech) found tucked inside the Grace Moore scrapbook and separated into their own folder. The drafts, all on the subject of design and designers, appear to date from the mid to late 1960s or 1970s, and do not date from the same time period as the materials in the Grace Moore scrapbook. "Designer's Responsibility" (6 pages) references "environmental design" (a term first used at Parsons School of Design in 1965) and the trend of American cars becoming smaller. An untitled manuscript quotes a 1973 reaction to the OPEC oil embargo, while the manuscript, "Color," identifies Diana Vreeland as the former editor of Vogue, which she left in 1971. A handwritten 19-page manuscript with the words, "The Public Look, the Private Look in Interior Design," at the top of the first page does not contain contemporary references.
Dates
- 1960s-1970s