Molly Grey

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Grey was an interior designer active in Sydney (working for David Jones, 1937, and others) as well as a furniture designer for Ricketts and Thorp, Sydney. Her work was illustrated in The Home magazine and Art in Australia in the 1930s. Peter McNeil reports that she hosted a 2FC radio programme on interior design in 1935. She also wrote occasional features for the press.

Citations

  • Peter McNeil (1 January 2002), 'Decorating the Home: Australian Interior Decoration Between the Wars’.

  • Peter McNeil (1 January 1994), ''Designing Women’: Gender, Sexuality and the Interior Decorator c1890-1940’.

  • Molly Grey (1 January 1940), 'Wartime Furnishings in Australia’.

  • Molly Grey. Account of recent trip to California, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 February 1938, p.6s

  • David Jones advertising services of Molly Grey, 24 March 1937, p.37

  • Molly Grey. “Modern Furnishing Fabrics.” Sydney Morning Herald, 22 September 1933, p.4 (illus.)

  • Hera Roberts, Adrian Feint, Mary Grey. “The Charm of Colour in the Home.” West Coast Kalsomine, Parramatta, 1933 (illus in Sydney Moderns, AGNSW, 2013, p.75

  • “Australian Furniture.” Architectural Section, (J.L. Stephen Mansfield, editor.), Art in Australia 16 November 1936, pps.77-88. [furniture by S. Lipson, Molly Gray/Ricketts and Thorp, Fred Ward, F.E. de Groot, Hera Roberts, Stuart-Low Furniture Studio, H. Goldman P/L, Mewton and Grounds, E.F. Bilson/Branchflower]