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.
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associate of
Peter Travis
1927
Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Ceramist), Designer (Industrial / Product Designer)
associate of
Fay Bottrell
Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
associate of
Robert Klippel
1920
Artist (Sculptor)
associate of
Douglas Burrage Snelling
1916
Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
advertisement for her firm illustrates interiors work by Snelling
associate of
Brian Dunlop
1912
Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
George Korody
1912
Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
associate of
Robert W. Lloyd
1912
Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
associate of
John Olsen
1912
Artist (Painter), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Designer, Artist (Ceramist)

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References [<ExternalResource: anon 'Mary White School of Art'.Design Australia, 6/1969 pps.60-61>, <ExternalResource: 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'.>, <ExternalResource: "Mary White." full page illus. advert. for Mary White Pty Ltd showing work by Douglas Snelling. Architecture and Arts, June, 1956, p.22>, <ExternalResource: Sue McGrath. "Something that would last." Profile of Mary White. Craft Australia, 1984:4, pp.105-111>] [<ExternalResource: anon 'Mary White School of Art'.Design Australia, 6/1969 pps.60-61>, <ExternalResource: 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'.>, <ExternalResource: "Mary White." full page illus. advert. for Mary White Pty Ltd showing work by Douglas Snelling. Architecture and Arts, June, 1956, p.22>]