Report on the Society of Interior Designers of Australia

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Notes

1. Often described as S.I.D., Society of Interior Designers.

2. Margaret Lord, An Interior Decorator’s World, also published as A Decorator’s World: Living with Art and International Design (Ure Smith, 1969), 185.

3. Cecily Adams, From the Diary of an Australian Decorator (Child and Henry, 1986), 13.

4. Information supplied by Catriona Quinn, February 5, 2014. Mary White Papers, Powerhouse Museum, 93/343/1–8 Memorandum and Articles of Association of SIDA.

5. SIDAF Interview, Geoffrey Stewardson, 2010.

6. Susan-Mary Withycombe, “Ethel Bruce and Ruth Lane Poole: Designing the Prime Minister’s Lodge,” January 4, 2014, http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/publications/papers-and-podcasts/designing-canberra/designing-the-lodge.aspx.

7. “Finding Aid: SIDA collection,” Museums of History NSW, https://mhnsw.au/finding-aid-sida-collection/.

8. SIDAF interview, James Fisher, 2010. James Fisher states that Riddell began his practice in 1933.

9. SIDAF interview, James Fisher, 2010.

10. Biographical material drawn from Royal Australian Institute of Architects archives.

11. SIDAF interview, Malcolm Forbes, 2010.

12. “Scope and Content,” Museums of History NSW, January 26, 2024, https://mhnsw.au/finding-aid-sida-collection/

13. SIDAF interview, Bill and Keera Le Lievre, 2010.

14. SIDAF interview, Bill and Keera Le Lievre, 2010.

15. Michaela Richards, The Best Style (Craftsman House, 1993), 25.