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Interior decoration -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Hadley papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0017
Summary

Albert Hadley (1920-2012) graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1949 and served on the faculty from 1949 through 1954. Hadley later joined Dorothy "Sister" Parish to form the interior design firm Parish-Hadley. The collection includes correspondence, design and lecture notes, student work and a mock-up for a booklet.

Dates: 1947 - 1999

Allan Skriloff student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0114-01
Summary

The collection consists of art and design work executed by furniture and interior designer Allan Skriloff during his studies in Parsons School of Design's Interior Design Department.

Dates: between 1963-1966

Anthony Pellino student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0104-01
Scope and Content of Collection

The collection consists of examples of Anthony Pellino's student art and design work, the bulk of which was completed in 1983, in his first year at Parsons. The notes that appear throughout the collection guide were compiled from notes made by Pellino at the time that he donated his work to the New School Archives.

Dates: 1982 - 1986

Carolyn Nesbitt Wagenseller student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0124-01
Summary

The collection consists primarily of lecture notes and course-related notebooks maintained by designer Carolyn Nesbitt Wagenseller ('63) during her studies in Parsons School of Design's Interior Design Department.

Dates: 1960 - 1963

Catherine Minkiewicz student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0115-01
Summary

The collection consists primarily of course assignments in the form of a collage, presentation boards, photographs, and a watercolor rendering by interior designer Catherine Minkiewicz (1966) during her studies in Parsons School of Design's Interior Design Department.

Dates: 1964 - 1966

Cleora Clark Wheeler student notebook and bookplates

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0061-01
Abstract

Notes taken by Cleora Clark Wheeler during lectures given by Frank Alvah Parsons at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design), which Wheeler attended in 1912-1913. Also included is a set of bookplates, which was the focus of Wheeler's later career.

Dates: 1910 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1913

Constance P. Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0057-01
Summary

Constance P. Brown attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) from 1913 to 1917, and worked as secretary to Frank Alvah Parsons in the teens or 1920s. The collection consists of correspondence from Parsons to Brown, faculty announcements, school circulars, interior decoration class rolls, clippings from 1913-1934, and correspondence with Parsons School of Design Alumni Association.

Dates: 1913 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1934

Daniel Lashen student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0053-01
Summary

Interior design sketches and detail studies from Daniel Lashen's studies at Parsons School of Design in New York and in Italy. Lashen graduated from Parsons in 1950.

Dates: 1947 - 1950

Dero Darwin, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0051-01
Summary

Dero Darwin, Jr. (1929-2014) graduated from Parsons School of Design's Interior Design Department in 1964. This collection includes design work Darwin produced as a student, as well as lecture notes and course materials, and material from Darwin's professional design career.

Dates: 1961 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1961 - 1964

Eleanor Greta Suss student interior design renderings

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0131-01
Scope and Content of Collection

Consists of two drawings of period rooms rendered in pen and ink and watercolor.

Dates: 1949