Mary White b. 1 January 1912

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
White studied at the East Sydney Technical College, founded the Mary White School of Art (and design), worked as an automobile stylist GM Holden ca. 1953 and an interior designer. She was also involved in the founding of the Crafts Council of Australia and an early member of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia, later acting as president. Studio recorded as 39 Martin Place, lvl 10 in 1953.

Citations

  • anon 'Mary White School of Art’.Design Australia, 6/1969 pps.60-61

  • C.A. Morrow (1 January 2005), '“Women and Modernity in Interior Design. A Legacy of Design in Sydney from the 1920s to the 1960s.”, (PhD Thesis, UNSW, 2005), Type: other resource’.

  • “Mary White.” full page illus. advert. for Mary White Pty Ltd showing work by Douglas Snelling. Architecture and Arts, June, 1956, p.22

  • Sue McGrath. “Something that would last.” Profile of Mary White. Craft Australia, 1984:4, pp.105-111