Ruby Ross Wood, one of America’s first decorators, started her career writing about design. Her writing appeared regularly in The Delineator, a popular women’s magazine. The columns she wrote under the byline of Elsie de Wolfe formed the basis of de Wolfe’s decorating manual “The House in Good Taste.” Columns she wrote about architecture under her own name became the basis of The Honest House, a popular book in the early-1900s.
Though her first design firm, the Modernist Studios, folded, Ruby Ross Wood went on to run Belmaison at John Wanamaker, and to work with Nancy McClelland at Au Quatrieme. In the 1920s, she opened her own firm. Her most famous employee was Billy Baldwin, who said Wood’s professional credo was “The final judgment in decorating is not the logic of the mind, but the logic of the eye.”
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