Show House Pantry and Sitting Room

Artist/Designer: Sister Parish

Project Location: United States

Figure 1: "In the ornate breakfast room, a treatment just as good in a simple room: rose-sprigged curtains, table cover of "Maypole" ribbons, an abstract herringbone stenciled floor, Blue Sky dome. Tiffany silver, china, glass."--from page 81, September 1974 issue of House & Garden magazine ( Photographer: image via page 81, September 1974 issue of House & Garden Magazine )

Figure 2: "Its years lopped off in an ingenious way, the old pantry is seemingly carpeted in Green Mint grass–all of it handpainted and overlaid with painted lattice."--from page 80, September 1974 issue of House & Garden magazine. ( Photographer: image via page 80, September 1974 issue, House & Garden Magazine )

Figure 3: "Once ponderous, the old china cabinet doors have become a little gallery of flower prints painted in the botanical style, and 'pinned up' on what seems to be wood treillage and nothing at all but paint."--from page 80, September 1974 issue of House & Garden magazine. ( Photographer: image via page 80, September 1974 issue, House & Garden Magazine )

Style/Period(s):
Revival Styles

Primary Material(s):
Fabric, Textile, Wood, Paint, Wall Paper

Function(s):
Exhibition, Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

Design Legend Sister Parish, Architectural Digest | Accessed : December 12, 2017

Sister Parish obituary, New York Times | Accessed : December 12, 2017

Decorators to Know, Sister Parish, 1st Dibs | Accessed : December 12, 2017

Significant Date(s):
1970-1979, 1974

Additional Information:
In 1974, Sister Parish created these rooms for a show house in New Jersey. An example of Parish's love of the country look, these spaces are important because they are representative of the influence that Sister Parish had on American design. Her projects were not just seen by the elite of New York City. Magazines with large readership published her projects constantly bringing them into homes all across the country.

"A New Color Life for You: Mixed garden colors", House & Garden Magazine, September 1974, 80-81.

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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