This collection consists of Irene Walker's student work from her time at Parsons School of Design, circa 1947-1951, as well as documentation of her professional interior design work at McMillen Inc. and at her own firm, Joie de Vivre, Irene Walker Inc., circa 1950s-1970s. The student work consists of measured drawings and renderings of interiors, mainly in the format of pencil drawings and watercolors. Most of the student work is consistent with other examples of Parsons student work from that time; a few additional items included seem likely to be student work. The professional work mainly consists of photographs documenting fashion designer Norman Norell's apartment, which Walker designed, and a related 1968 magazine story from House Beautiful, and also includes a resume, a clipping showing another apartment Walker designed, a few furniture sketches from her time at McMillen Inc., and a couple of photographs of unidentified interiors. The collection also includes photographic portraits of Walker, likely taken for professional purposes. Two contact sheets document a photo shoot of Walker in what may have been her apartment, likely in the late 1960s or 1970s. Two enlargements from that photo shoot accompany the contact sheets. An additional formal photographic portrait of Walker as a younger woman, perhaps in the 1950s, is present.