Vietor Apartment, New York, New York (1926)

Artist/Designer: Ruby Ross Wood

Project Location: New York, United States

Figure 1: "Over the desk is a group of watercolors of hyacinths, and old English porcelain jardinieres hold masses of fresh flowers. The seat of the Queen Anne den chair is also flowered needlework."
-Ruby Ross Wood, 1926 ( Photographer: 20th Century Decorating Architecture & Gardens, page 108 )

Figure 2: "The garden room in Mrs. John Vietor's New York apartment grew from a carved pine overmantel framing an English garden scene. The pale green of the walls is carried into the curtains of glazed chintz sprigged with flowers."-Ruby Ross Wood, 1926 ( Photographer: 20th Century Decorating Architecture & Gardens, page 108 )

Figure 3: "Over this daybed, covered in gray silk sprigged with bunches of flowers, hangs a painting of Mrs. Vietor's garden. Watercolors of hyacinths are on this wall, and a needlework chair is in the foreground."--Ruby Ross Wood, 1926 ( Photographer: 20th Century Decorating Architecture & Gardens, page 109 )

Style/Period(s):
Neoclassical

Primary Material(s):
No Primary Material Assigned.

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

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

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

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

Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1926

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.

Wood, Ruby Ross. "Outdoors Within Walls." In 20th Century Decorating Architecture & Gardens, edited by Mary Jane Pool, 108-09. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.

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