Photograph credits: Bartlett, Apple Parish, and Susan Bartlett Crater. Sister: The Life of Legendary American Interior Decorator Mrs. Henry Parish II. St. Martin's Press, 2000.
"It is only my eye that has helped me . I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color--but that comes very naturally to me. As in my dreams, I am always in a garden, and in reality it is where I am happiest. I have heard I represent the undecorated look. It is what I like, but I am unsure because I know no better." - Sister Parish
"From the beginning I never followed trends. If I was aware of them, I didn't care, for I believed, as I do now, that rooms shall be timeless and very personal. I don't want to achieve a personal style and I certainly don't have a " look "-just a mishmash of everything that somehow by instinct, usually turns out to be a warm, imaginative " living " room. If there is a theme to my work, it is the theme of my life-continuity. Things inherited from the past somehow always turn out to be the most interesting and beautiful things we can live with today. I have never developed a look or followed a trend because I knew that every person's life differs from every other and everyone's needs are therefore different . The lessons I learned doing my own house and those I leaned in my earliest commissions have been with me during my fifty years of decorating" - Sister Parish
Photograph credits: Bartlett, Apple Parish, and Susan Bartlett Crater. Sister: The Life of Legendary American Interior Decorator Mrs. Henry Parish II. St. Martin's Press, 2000.
