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The New School President's Forum
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Henriette Suhr |
NEW YORK, March 2, 2010—The New School presents An Evening with Henriette Suhr on Wednesday, March 10 at 6:00 p.m. in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center at 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. New School President Bob Kerrey and Joel Towers, dean of Parsons The New School for Design will engage in an informal discussion with Parsons alumna Henriette Suhr, a renowned former interior design executive and celebrated creator of Rocky Hills a well-known garden estate in Mt. Kisco, New York.
Suhr spent her early years in Paris, where she attended the Parsons Paris interior design program. After graduating in 1937 and moving to the United States in 1941, Suhr went on to a distinguished career as an interior designer with a specialty in home furnishing displays. As head of Bloomingdale’s decorating department, she revolutionized interior design by introducing contemporary American and European furniture designers to the U.S. market and displaying their work in lavish model rooms. Featuring a blend of merchandise from many different sources, these model rooms were one of Suhr’s great innovations, educating consumer taste for easier, more informed purchasing and décor decisions.
More recently, Ms. Suhr has won renown for creating and nurturing Rocky Hills, one of the country’s leading private gardens and a favorite of the Garden Conservancy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving extraordinary gardens. Beginning in the 1950s, Ms. Suhr and her husband, William, a distinguished art conservator, transformed their property into what The New York Times called an “eight-acre wonderland”—a rolling landscape of beautifully arranged flowers, shrubs, and trees—for which she won the Foundation for Landscape Studies’ 2009 Place Maker Award. Ms. Suhr has donated Rocky Hills to Westchester County for use as a public garden and education center.
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An Evening with Henriette Suhr is part of The President's Forum, as series of public discussions between New School President Bob Kerrey and notable guests. For a full list of additional events this spring, please visit www.newschool.edu/president.
About The New School and Parsons The New School for Design
Located in the heart of New York’s Greenwich Village, The New School is a center of academic excellence where intellectual and artistic freedoms thrive. Parsons The New School for Design, a vital part of the university, established the first interior design program in the nation in 1906. In addition to Suhr, notable alumni of the interior design programs at Parsons include Albert Hadley, Jamie Drake, Victoria Hagan, Sheila Bridges, and Mario Buatta. The School offers BFA, MFA and AAS programs in Interior Design, which are housed in the School for Constructed Environments, the only integrated school of interior design, lighting design, product design and architecture in the country. The school is one of five thematic schools that Parsons has recently created to better facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to design education. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons.
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