Interior design
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Laura Lee Clark (born October 28, 1964) is an American interior designer based in Dallas, Texas. She is also recognized for her interior design showroom, adjoining her design space in the famous Dallas Design District at 1515 Slocum Strret.
Laura Lee Clark was born in 1964 in Greenville, Texas and graduated from Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design in 1987 and Clark has studied at the Parsons School of Design in Italy. She is married to John Falconer since 2004 and the couple has one daughter. Laura Lee is a Delta Delta Delta sorority alumna, [1] and a member of the Dallas Museum of Art, an American Society of Interior Designers Professional Member, [2] a Registered Interior Designer with the State of Texas and a member of the Dallas Museum of Art.
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Laura Lane Bush is an American educator who was First Lady of the United States as the wife of President George W. Bush, from 2001 to 2009. Bush previously served as First Lady of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Eva Striker Zeisel was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships. Work from throughout her prodigious career is included in important museum collections across the world. Zeisel declared herself a "maker of useful things."
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District. The new building was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, the 2007 winner of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal.
Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes,, is an English fashion and textile designer. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for career in the industry creating textile prints. Rhodes designed garments for Diana Princess of Wales and numerous celebrities. In addition to designing garments, she designed textiles for interiors, featuring her prints on furniture and homewares. In 2003 Rhodes founded the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
Nicole Miller is an American fashion designer and businesswoman.
The Crow Museum of Asian Art is a museum in downtown Dallas, Texas, dedicated to celebrating the arts and cultures of Asia including China, Japan, India, Korea, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines, from ancient to the contemporary. The Crow Museum opened to the public on December 5, 1998, as a gift to the people and visitors of Dallas from Mr. and Mrs. Trammell Crow. The museum is a member of the Dallas Arts District. The interior was designed by Booziotis and Company Architects of Dallas.
Gae Aulenti was a prolific Italian architect, whose work spans industrial and exhibition design, furniture, graphics, stage design, lighting and interior design. She was well known for several large-scale museum projects, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris (1980–86) with ACT Architecture, the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the restoration of Palazzo Grassi in Venice (1985–86), and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco with HOK (firm) (2000–2003). Aulenti was one of the few women designing in the postwar period in Italy, where Italian designers sought to make meaningful connections to production principles beyond Italy. This avant-garde design movement blossomed into an entirely new type of Italian architecture, one full of imaginary utopias leaving standardization to the past.
Laura Cunningham Wilson is an American photographer. Her photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, Texas Monthly, Wallpaper, Washington Post Magazine, She has completed five books of photography and text: Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989), Hutterites of Montana (2000), Avedon at Work: In the American West (2003), Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football (2003) and That Day: Pictures in the American West (2015). She is the mother of actors Owen Wilson, Andrew Wilson, and Luke Wilson.
Frances Bagley is an American sculptor who was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee. Her sculptures are made from many different materials including metal, stone, human hair and fabric. Recently she has also included video into her art. She lives and works in Dallas,Texas.
Dorothy Wright Liebes was an American textile designer and weaver renowned for her innovative, custom-designed modern fabrics for architects and interior designers. She was known as "the mother of modern weaving".
Jack Lenor Larsen is a textile designer, author and collector and promoter of traditional and contemporary craftsmanship in all its forms.
Sue Timney is a British Interior, Product and textile designer. Born in Benghazi, Libya who has worked in Britain, USA, Europe and Japan for over 30 years. She is known as the co-founder of Timney Fowler, the award-winning interior product company set up in 1980 with its particular brand of exotic classism and strong emphasis on the use of graphic monochromatic imagery. Timney is also recognised as an interior, branding and licensing designer working with clients such as the World Wildlife Fund, Sir John Soane's Museum and the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew all within the Charity sector. She has been awarded the Design medal from the Textile Institute and two Roscoe Tiffany awards for surface design in the U.S. Separately her work within design education is well recognized working with the Royal Society of Arts for ten years as a Chair for the Student Design Awards and Visiting Professor of Textiles and Fellow of the Royal College of Art. For over 15 years Timney Fowler also sponsored individual student prizes and bursaries at the RCA and RSA Timney's work is in the collection of several museums including the Victoria & Albert Museum London, Art Institute of Chicago and Cooper Hewitt Museum New York.
Jan Showers, is an American interior designer. She is also the owner and proprietor of a showroom in the Dallas Design District where she curates and sells antiques purchased on buying trips to Paris, New York, London and Venice. In January 2014, Architectural Digest named Jan Showers & Associates to the AD100 list of top design & architecture firms. Showers operates the Jan Showers Collection, a line of high-end luxury furnishings. In 2009, Abrams Books published Glamorous Rooms, a book about Showers’ perspectives and ideas about interior design. Glamorous Rooms is in its 8th printing. In October 2013, Jan's second book, "Glamorous Retreats" showcases the designer's most luxurious interiors Veranda magazine has called Showers’ style “glamour without pretense.”
Emily Summers, is an American interior designer. She is President and CEO of Emily Summers Design Associates. Beginning her design career in 1979, she became known for her collaboration with architects and artists along with the collection, commission, and architectural installation of fine art into projects. Her firm, Emily Summers Design Associates, has been recognized for using unexpected materials, creating custom pieces for each project, and combining them with 20th-century furniture and decorative objects for clients. Summers is also recognized for her involvement in urban planning, museums and fine art, higher education, and historic preservation.
Rita Crocker Clements was an American Republican Party organizer, an activist in historic preservation, and a First Lady of the U.S. state of Texas.
Laura Umansky is an American entrepreneur and interior designer. She is the founder and president of Laura U Interior Design, a luxury residential interior design studio based in Houston, Texas. Known for her signature Classically Current style, Umansky has been recognized on the National Gold List by Luxe Magazine. Her company has received multiple awards from the American Society of Interior Designers. Umansky was featured on the cover of HGTV Magazine.
Barbara Hines is an American artist.
Patricia Altschul is an American socialite, art collector, and personality on the reality television series, Southern Charm. She is the widow of Arthur G. Altschul, a former Goldman Sachs partner and prominent art collector and philanthropist. Mrs. Altschul has been a director or trustee of several nonprofit organizations including the New York Historical Society and Historic Hudson Valley. In 2012, Altschul was given a Woman of the Year award by the Police Athletic League of New York City. In 2013, she received a Carolopolis Award from the Preservation Society of Charleston for her renovation of the historic Isaac Jenkins Mikell House in Charleston, SC.
Carlotta Corpron was an American photographer known for her abstract compositions featuring light and reflections, made mostly during the 1940s and 1950s. She is considered a pioneer of American abstract photography and a key figure in Bauhaus-influenced photography in Texas.
Ann Getty was an American philanthropist, paleoanthropologist, publisher, and interior designer. As a fellow of the Leakey Foundation, she worked on archeological digs in Turkey and Ethiopia and was part of a team that excavated Ardipithecus fossils. She provided funding for the National Museum of Ethiopia and redesigned the museum's garden. Getty served as president of Grove Press, a publishing house that she and Lord Weidenfeld purchased in 1985, and founded the interior design firm Ann Getty and Associates in 1995.