Melvin Dwork papers
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/KA0034.
Descriptive Status
No publicly accessible container list or inventory is available at this time. Please contact The New School Archives if you are interested in consulting this collection.
Summary
Named one of Architectural Digest’s top 100 designers in 1990 and 2002, Melvin Dwork (1922-2016) attended Parsons School of Design in the 1940s, and later served on the Parsons Advisory Committee. The collection (1930s through the 2000s) includes student work, slides, photographs, news clippings, press releases, brochures, showroom catalogs, personal correspondence and awards.
Dates
- 1933 - 2012
Creator
- Dwork, Melvin (Person)
- Vitale, Peter (Photographer, Person)
Extent
3.2 Linear Feet (6 boxes, 29 illustrations)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
- Ardiles-Arce, Jaime (Photographer)
- Catalogs (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Clippings (information artifacts) (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Georges, Alexandre (Photographer)
- Interior decoration -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Local sources
- Interior decoration firms (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Interior designers (Occupation) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Maguire, James (Designer)
- Photographs (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Slides (photographs) (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Student projects (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Melvin Dwork papers
- Status
- In Process
- Author
- New School Archives and Special Collections Staff
- Date
- September 14, 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English