Sister Parish
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 Sister Parish facts

• She was the first interior designer brought in to decorate the Kennedy White House, a position soon usurped by French interior designer Stéphane Boudin
• Despite Boudin's growing influence, Parish's influence can still be seen at the White House, particularly in the Yellow Oval Room
• A stately and occasionally eccentric white-haired lady, Parish was the design partner of Albert Hadley, a Tennessee-born decorator, with whom she co-founded Parish-Hadley Associates (1962–1999)
• Both were equally influential, Parish for her homey, cluttered traditionalism and passion for patchwork quilts, painted furniture, and red-lacquer secretaries and Hadley for his clean-cut take on modernism
• Hadley described Parish's designs as "baroque" and "freewheeling"
• It was Parish's custom at the start of each project to roll a tea cart through the house, getting rid of anything she deemed unnecessary, often intimidating clients with her frank approach
• She was partial to the understated English country house look, and her combinations of Colefax and Fowler chintzes, overst￭ armchairs, and brocade sofas with such unexpected items as patchwork quilts, four-poster beds, knitted throws, and rag rugs led to her being credited with ushering in what became known as American country style during the 1960s
• In 1962, Sister hired Albert Hadley and the firm Parish-Hadley was born
• "Parish-Hadley influenced a whole generation of decorators and many of the top New York decorators went through the firm at some point in their careers," stated Harold Simmons
• Hadley added an academic approach to the practice, while the partnership gave them both a confidence which became evident in their rooms