Margaret Lord b. 12 December 1908

Also known as Margaret Florence Lord
  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Lord was an interior designer, journalist, colour consultant and author. She was an energetic promoter of Australian design and designers through her writings and other activities. She was the colour consultant to "The Berger School of Paintechnics", Burwood NSW. Her extensive archives and book manuscripts are in the Powerhouse Museum's collection.
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Citations

  • C.A. Morrow (2005), '“Women and Modernity in Interior Design. A Legacy of Design in Sydney from the 1920s to the 1960s.”’, PhD Thesis, UNSW, 2005, Kensington, NSW Australia.

  • Margaret Lord (1 January 1944), 'Interior Decoration. A Guide to Furnishing the Australian Home.’.

  • Margaret Lord (1 January 1969), 'A Decorator’s World. Living with Art and International Design.’.

  • anon (1 January 1976), 'Margaret Lord Archives’.

    http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=120296

  • Denise Whitehouse. “Margaret Lord.” biographical summary of career (see researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/vital/access/services/.../swin…/SOURCE2‎)

  • “The Berger Studio of Paintechnics.” Art and Design One. Ure Smith, 1949, p.72. Lord was colour consultant to the studio which addressed and promoted the emotive qualities of colour in the workplace.

  • Robert Bell, Nordic Wave, a Study of the Reception and Influence of Scandinavian Design In Australia, ANU PhD thesis, 2007 (career summary)

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Residences
  • 1908- Warrnambool, Vic.
  • unspecified date range Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1936 - 1940 London, England
  • 1940 - 1976 Potts Point, Sydney, NSW
  • 1908 - Warrnambool, Vic.
  • - Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1936 - 1940 London, England
  • 1940 - 1976 Potts Point, Sydney, NSW
Trainings
  • Art, unspecified date range Swinburne Technical College, Melbourne, Vic.
  • - the National Gallery School, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
  • Art, - Swinburne Technical College, Melbourne, Vic.
  • - the National Gallery School, Melbourne, Vic., Australia