Nora S. McDougall

  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
McDougall was an interior designer, based in Sydney. Initially working as a poster designer, she worked with the RAAF Education Service during the 1939-45 War. She also lectured on interior decoration in Melbourne and elsewhere, later authoring a book "Make your house a home: how to decorate" published by her Sydney Interior Decoration Studio.

Citations

  • anon (1 January 1947), '“Australia Is Young In Interior Decoration”’.news item on McDougall, in the [Melbourne] Argus, 6 Feb 1947, p.8

  • C.A. Morrow (2005), '“Women and Modernity in Interior Design. A Legacy of Design in Sydney from the 1920s to the 1960s.”’, PhD Thesis, UNSW, 2005, Kensington, NSW Australia.

  • Nora S. McDougall (1 January 1949), 'Make your house a home : how to decorate’.illustrated by Elizabeth Guion King. Sydney : Sydney Interior Decoration Studio, 1949

  • Gene Bawden. “Repatriating the Home: The 1944 Home Advice Manual
    of Nora McDougall.” Paper given at SAHANZ, Sydney, MCA, 2015.

    https://www.sahanz.net/wp-content/uploads/Bawden_Repatriating-the-Home.pdf