Mariette Cassels student notebooks
Summary
The collection consists of eight notebooks kept by Mariette Cassels (1905-1993) while studying in the Paris Ateliers of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now, Parsons The New School for Design) in 1930-1931. Includes lecture notes, photographs, postcards, clippings and sketches of furniture and decorative moldings.
Dates
- probably 1930-1931
Creator
- Cassels, Mariette (Person)
Extent
5.2 Cubic Feet (5 boxes (containing a total of 13 binders) and 1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Mariette Cassels' eight student notebooks comprised of clip books, lecture notes and a report created from class field trips to the châteaux of France in the summer of 1930. Three watercolor renderings of decorative pieces, printed ephemera and postcards supplement the notebooks.
The clip books, consisting of notes, sketches, photographs and clippings, illustrate and explore the decorative trends of the following periods: Louis XIV, XV, XVI, Directoire/Empire, Restoration/Victorian and Modern.
The lecture notes cover the history and evolution of furniture and interior decoration from the first half of the seventeenth century as well as the Louis XV and XVI periods.
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Biographical note
Marriette Cassels Winship studied Interior Architecture and Decoration at the Paris Ateliers of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now, Parsons The New School for Design) from 1930 to 1931. She received her diploma in March 1931. While in Europe, she embarked on a course of study that focused on class tours to châteaux, cathedral towns, and various provinces in France.
Mariette Cassels Winship died in 1993.
Custodial History
Donated to Parsons School of Design by Mrs. Paul V. Land before the establishment of the New School Archives.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Internal transfer, 1994.
External Support
The processing of this collection was supported in part by a grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust.
- Castles (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Clip books (Type of Material) Subject Source: Local sources
- Design -- Study and teaching (Subject) Subject Source: Local sources
- France -- Description and travel (Places) (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Furniture design (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Interior decoration -- Study and teaching -- France -- 20th century (Subject) (Places) (Temporal) Subject Source: Local sources
- Interior decoration rendering (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lecture notes (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Manuscripts (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Notebooks (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Paris Ateliers
- Photographs (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Renderings (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Sketches (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Student projects (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Mariette Cassels student notebooks
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Anne Kumer
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- September 15, 2010: Will Edmiston revised and expanded descriptive notes.
- February 9, 2021: Anna Robinson-Sweet added component "Louis XIV" to account for material that had been unintentionally left out of the collection inventory.
- May 13, 2025: Victoria Fernandez updated box numbers and collection extent to reflect that the binders were boxed for offsite storage.