Sister parish

The four-bedroom house is filled with fabrics, wallpapers and furniture by Parish, best known for decorating parts of the White House for the Kennedys

Sister Parish’s Enduring American Style

A lot has been written over the years about the formidable Mrs. Henry Parish, II, better known as “Sister," the founder of the impossibly smart, now defunct, Parish-Hadley Associates decorating firm. Mrs. Parish, as photographed for Architectural Digest I've always had a passing interest in Mrs. Parish, not only because of her accomplishments and the lore surrounding her, which is considerable, but because she and my eldest sister Camilla both share the same nickname of "Sister." As a small…

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93 Arthur Street, Eltham, Victoria

Sister Parish Design (founded in 1933) is a fourth generation family-owned firm helmed by Susan Crater and her daughter Eliza Crater Harris.

Sister Parish Design on Instagram: “Cue the fireworks - it's Serendipity in red, white & blue! One of our most popular patterns for nurseries and children's bedrooms will now…”

“In good decorating, innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is useful, and what is lasting,” said the beloved decorator

I suppose, in a way, it's fitting to end the week with photos of Sister Parish's homes in Dark Harbor, Maine. Homes is plural because, as you'll recall, she owned both a winter house in town as well as a summer place that was down the road. At first glance, it's a heady mix of floral chintzes, stripes, and patchwork. But take a good look at the rooms and you'll see evidence of Sister Parish's projects: decoupage, needlework, and floral arrangements that she attended to daily. They add such a…

Sister Parish Design’s creative director dug through the Parish Hadley archives to bring her new home to vivid, pattern-filled life