Edward J Wormley and Edward Crouse papers, 1831-1997, 1907-1997.

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Edward J Wormley and Edward Crouse papers, 1831-1997, 1907-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64096727

The collection documents Wormley and Crouse's 52 year relationship, which started in 1919 as a friendship and later became a romantic and sexual relationship that survived years apart, including during World War II while Crouse served in the military. Included are correspondence between Wormley and Crouse, 1926-1945; letters from relatives, friends, and colleagues, 1920's-1990's; original photographs of Wormley and Crouse as well as their relatives, friends, and colleagues; personal diaries and calendars; and scrapbooks filled with mementos from their travel in Europe. Also documented are Wormley's design-related activities, through correspondence and other documents involving colleagues (T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Edgar Kaufmann, Walter D. Teague, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, and Jack Lenor Larsen); business papers; floor and garden plans, fabric samples, etc. Other highlights include files relating to architecture, design, theater, travel and other subjects; family papers; and tax records.

18.1 cubic ft.

Cornell University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7911325

Cornell University Library

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Crouse, Edward.

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Wormley, Edward J., 1907-1995

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Edward J Wormley (he preferred to omit the period), who worked for Dunbar Furniture from 1931 to 1968, is considered one of the major 20th century designers of American modernist furniture. His partner Edward Crouse was a professor of journalism and drama and the theater director at the University of Georgia, at Athens, 1930-1946. Crouse served as Theatrical Entertainment Director for the U.S. Army base in Greenland from 1943 to 1945. When the war ended, Wormley moved to New York City and opened...

Teague, Walter Dorwin, 1883-1960

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Walter Dorwin Teague (1883-1960) was an American industrial designer and founder of Walter Dorwin Teague Associates. For more than eighty years, the company - known today simply as "Teague"- has designed everything from aircrafts to gas stations to cameras, in some cases maintaining a decades-long relationships with satisfied clients (their work for Boeing spanned sixty years and four aircraft models). Today, the company lists Hewlett Packard, Nike, Microsoft and other major corporations among t...

Natzler, Otto

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Otto Natzler (1908-2007) was a ceramicist in Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Otto Natzler, 1980 July 7-14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395893 Ceramist (Los Angeles, Calif.) Born in 1908. Died in 2007. From the description of Otto Natzler interviews, 1980 July 7-1980 July 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220179939 ...

Kaufmann, Edgar J., 1885-1955

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Larsen, Jack Lenor.

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Jack Lenor Larsen, 1927, was a weaver and textile designer of East Hampton, New York; b. 1927. Interviewer Arline M. Fisch: Jeweler, San Diego, Cailf.; b. 1931. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack Lenor Larsen, 2004 Feb. 6-8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646401579 Jack Lenor Larsen (1927-) was a designer and a weaver from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack Lenor Larsen, 1971 Apr. 26-May...

Natzler, Gertrud

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Robsjohn-Gibbings, Terence Harold, 1905-

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Interior designer; New York, N.Y. From the description of Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings papers, 1940-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86133007 ...