Apartment Design ,New York, New York 1937

Artist/Designer: Ruby Ross Wood

Project Location: New York, United States

Figure 1: "Wood added Art Deco touches, like white carpet and paintings under glass, to the living room of the H. Mercer Walkers' 1937 New York apartment."---Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, January 2000 ( Photographer: Architectural Digest, January 2000, page 233 )

Figure 2: The Regency living room in the New York home of Mrs. He. Mercer Walker, decorated by Ruby Ross Wood in the 1930s. ( Photographer: House & Garden's Complete Guide to Interior Decoration (1947), page 165 )

Figure 3: The dining room of Mr. and Mrs. H. Mercer Walker was "defined by the contrast between a Moderne mirrored chimneypiece and traditional furnishings."---Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, January 2000 ( Photographer: Architectural Digest, January 2000 )

Figure 4: The Regency-revival entry hall of the Walker apartment, designed by Ruby Ross Wood. ( Photographer: from The Great Lady Decorators by Adam Lewis )

Style/Period(s):
Classical Revival

Primary Material(s):
No Primary Material Assigned.

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

Essay on Ruby Ross Wood, John Tackett, "The Devoted Classicist" | Accessed : September 20, 2017

Essay on Ruby Ross Wood, Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, January 2000 | Accessed : September 20, 2017

"Ruby, It's You" by Christopher Petkanas for T Magazine, The New York Times | Accessed : September 20, 2017

Significant Date(s):
1937

Additional Information:
Lewis, Adam. "Ruby Ross Wood." In The Great Lady Decorators: The Women Who Defined Interior Design, 1870-1955, 52-69. New York: Rizzoli, 2009.

Owens, Mitchell. "Ruby Ross Wood: An Idiosyncratic Eye That Brought New Verve to American Interiors." Architectural Digest 57, no. 1 (January 2000): 232-37.

Smith, C. Ray. Interior Design in 20th-Century America: A History. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Wright, Richardson, ed. House & Garden's Complete Guide to Interior Decoration. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947.

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