Apartment of Sister Parish, New York City, NY; 1970s
Artist/Designer:
Sister Parish
Project Location:
New York, United States
Figure 1: In the living room, a portrait of Mrs. Parish hangs between windows with curtains in a custom fabric that is now, in 2017, available via Sister Parish Design as "Pocantico". The rug in this room is a "pale-patterned linen rug used in 19th-century Indian summer palaces."
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Photographer: photographer Horst P. Horst, House & Garden Magazine, September 1972 )
Figure 2: "A corner of the living room, 18 by 21 feet, 11 feet high. A vastly comfortable and plump looking chaise in white cotton is in turn covered with bright zig zag-patterned cushions, an Indian throw. The same Alan Campbell wax resist dyed pattern covers the whitewashed signed French chair in front of chaise. Heavy cotton basketweave-patterned curtains in mauve and white with an orange trim hang in deep folds from a white rod."--from page 68, September 1972 issue of House & Garden Magazine
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Photographer: photographer Horst P. Horst, House & Garden Magazine, September 1972 )
Figure 3: "One of two sofas in a room filled with cozy places to sit. Throughout the room the furniture and objects follow themes, either of texture or type. There are black lacquered bowls, blue and white porcelain, animal figures, baskets (some Chinese lacquer, others Indian or wicker). --from page 71, September 1972 issue of House & Garden Magazine
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Photographer: photographer Horst P. Horst, House & Garden Magazine, September 1972 )
Figure 4: Another view of the living room showing a white sofa with a Lily Cushing painting above and a Parish-Hadley table in front.--from page 72, September 1972 issue of House & Garden Magazine
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Photographer: photographer Horst P. Horst, House & Garden September 1972 )
Figure 5: Adjacent to the living room is the dining room, "which is really a front hall. The walls here are washable, a white sisal square pattern in vinyl. Overhead a deep red orange ceiling. The chairs against the wall are Chinese Chippendale. A painted wood duck is the centerpiece under a Japanese lantern used for a chandelier. Indian basket holds branches."--from page 73, September 1972 issue of House & Garden Magazine
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Photographer: photographer Horst P. Horst, House & Garden Magazine September 1972 )
Figure 6: A bedroom turned sitting room is "the sort of warm, old fashioned room Mrs. Parish is known for. A blue and white flame pattern plaid, yellow walls, and a modern Indian rug give a feeling of richness and comfort that is still informal. The room evolves from Mrs. Parish's special ability for making her interests, hobbies, and finds go with good furniture and rest of the room. The walls are filled with dog paintings." Dogs are a very special love of Mrs. Parish. Quoted text is from the September 1972 issue of House & Garden Magazine.
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Photographer: photographer Horst P. Horst, House & Garden Magazine, September 1972 )
Style/Period(s):
Revival Styles
Primary Material(s):
Fabric, Wood
Function(s):
Residential Structure
Related Website(s):
Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1970-1979, 1972
Additional Information:
This is Sister Parish's Maisonette apartment on the Upper East Side's Fifth Avenue.
"Colors to live with: Soft Twentieth-Century Pastels", House & Garden Magazine, September 1972, pages 68-73.
Parish, Sister, Albert Hadley, and Christopher Petkanas. Parish Hadley: Sixty Years of American Design (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1995).
Wood, Martin. Sister Parish: American Style (London: Lincoln, Frances Ltd., 2011).
Crater, Susan Bartlett and Apple Parish Bartlett. Sister Parish: The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer (New York: Abrams, 2012).
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