This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
The collection is made up of 32 drawings in pencil, pastel, ink, and/or gouache on paper, vellum, or board. Included are designs for light fixtures, chairs, tables, mirrors, sofas in styles ranging from Baroque revival, Greek revival, Chinese Chippendale revival, and Regency revival.
circa 1910s-1960s
This collection was donated in honor of Tobin Andrews Sparling (Columbia University Masters in Library Services, 1976; Masters in Art History, 1977; J. D., 1988) by Claude-Albert Saucier in 2010
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Source of acquisition--Claude-Albert Saucier. Method of acquisition--Donated;; Date of acquisition--2010. Accession number--2010.013.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
New York based interior decorators and designers during the 1910s to the 1960s influenced and affected by the work of American interior decorator Dorothy Draper (1889-1969). Designers and decorators represented in the collection include Loeber Ahern, David C. Ayers, A.R. Kanne, E.N. Phillips, J. Rosenbaum, G.E. Walters & Sons, Harris Interior Arts, Inc. Lifton Furniture, Inc. and Meyer Gunther.
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