Eleanor Le Maire Associates records
name: label: Creator
content: Eleanor Le Maire Associates
label: Names
content: Le Maire, Eleanor, 1897-1970
topic: label: Occupation
content: Interior decorators -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Designers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women designers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The donor, Louis Britwitz, was Le Maire's husband and business associate - working as treasurer and general manager of the firm.
creator: label: Creator
content: Eleanor Le Maire Associates
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interior design firm, founded by Eleanor Le Maire; New York, N.Y. The firm was founded in the early 1930's after Le Maire worked as a staff designer for Bullocks in Los Angeles. Designed business and commercial interiors - among clients were Bullocks, and Neiman-Marcus of Texas, and the New Yorker Hotel. Also designed military transport and passenger ships, as well as the Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Le Maire died in 1970.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.eleale
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Inter-office memoranda; 200 photographs of business interior designs by Eleanor Le Maire, most in New York City; a photograph of Le Maire, and biographical information; 23 scale drawings and blueprints of two of Le Maire's design projects; seven publicity scrapbooks, 1928-1960; five appointment books, 1965-1969; one business address book; correspondence with clients regarding commissions, 1935-1942; and eight speeches and articles by Le Maire on design, 1957-1969, one of which is a design of a passenger ship.