BIOGHIST REQUIRED Olive Emslie was an interior designer who worked on projects for various shopping centers and stores in America and Canada from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Emslie received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Cornell University and worked for various architectural and design firms, such as Levy and Levy, Ketchum Gina and Sharp, and Victor Gruen Associates, before opening her own practice in 1966.
BIOGHIST REQUIRED Emslie also owned a patent for her design of a fountain pen from her time as a product designer at Van Doren, Knowland and Schaldermundt. Noteworthy projects include the planning and designing of different floors of two Kaufmann's stores in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh and Monroeville) as well as Color Print Shop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From the guide to the Olive Emslie papers, 1951-1978, (Columbia University. Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Dept. of Drawings & Archives, )
