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Cecily Adams was senior decorator at Beard Watsons, Sydney, later in private practice in Castlecrag. She was a founding member of the SIDA in 1951. Educated at Strathcona Melbourne, she relocated to Sydney in 1932 and studied art at the East Sydney Technical College under Rayner Hoff. Her book, "From the Diary of an Australian Decorator", published by Child and Henry in 1986 is a memoir of her career in interior design.