Margaret Jaye

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Margaret Jaye, Interior decorator, is considered to be the first trader to be listed as such in Sydney. Despite opening a store in Darlinghurst Road in 1925, little has been written about Jaye as she was not seen to meet a level of artistic integrity and was rarely, if at all, involved in the art scene. She wrote on design in "Decoration and Glass" and continued a practice "New Boutique", Killara in the mid-1960s.

Citations

  • Margaret Jaye (1 August 1935), 'The Stimulating Lure of Modern Fabrics’. Decoration and Glass, series on Accessories in the Home, 1 August 1935

  • Peter McNeil (1 January 2005), 'Women of Influence’.

  • Dungavell, Ian (1993), 'Molly-Sabata Dangar. The Pottery of Anne Dangar’, Ceramics: Art and Perception, no.11, 1993.

  • Lord, Margaret (1969), 'A Decorator’s World, Living with Art and International Design’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1929), 'The Burdekin House Exhibition’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1925), 'Wise’s New South Wales Post Office Directory’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Arnott, Bruce (1992), 04-22. Information from interview with.

  • Craig, Isobel (1992), 04-22. Information from interview with.

  • “Decor, 1966.” Canberra Times, 23 February 1966, p.17, incl.reference to “well-known Sydney Interior Decorator Margaret Jaye’s shop New Boutique”, Killara

  • Neville Gruzman, et al. Gruzman. An Architect and his City. Craftsman House, 2006, p.264. Gruzman bio. sketch.

  • Margaret Jaye (1 January 1935), 'The Increasing Interest in Modern Fabrics’. Decoration and Glass, July 1935, pps.12-13, illustrated, 1 January 1935

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book