The collection consists of documents connected to Ziva Gruber’s work at professional interior design firms in the 1970s and early 1980s, and eight notebooks from interior design courses Gruber took while a student at Parsons School of Design.

Two of the student notebooks are from spring 1962, Gruber’s first year at Parsons. These notebooks contain basic studies in color, perspective, and layout, lecture notes, and notes from field trips to New York-based institutions. Gruber used a range of materials for the studies, including watercolor, pencil, and pen, on paper and vellum. The remaining six notebooks Gruber made her second year at Parsons. These notebooks, numbered one through six, are period studies. The illustrations are felt-tipped pen on mylar. Notes from lectures by Robert Castle, chairperson of the Interior Design department, James Woodruff, and Stanley Barrow are included.

The majority of documents from Gruber’s career in interior design are dated 1971-1981. This material relates to Ford and Earl’s partnership with Parsons to redesign the Central Park Zoo, design procedures internal to Stanley Felderman, photographs and correspondence connected to the 1979 Hexter Awards (Gruber won honorable mention), and clippings. A catalog for RCA’s art collection, which Gruber designed, is included.

The series also contains a set of rolled blueprints. After 1982, Gruber worked as a private contractor for luxury residential and commercial buildings, until her retirement in 2011. One of Gruber's projects was to remodel the Schneider residence in 1994. The blueprints are from this remodel.