Marion Hall Best

Marion Best Fabrics: artist designed textiles
Marion Best Fabrics, established around 1940, was the first example in Australia of a group of artists being commissioned to design textiles

Marion Hall Best Collection
Marion Hall Best was one of Australia’s most influential 20th-century interior designers, and a founding member of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia. This collection includes papers, plans, photographs, wallpapers, fabrics and furnishings relating to her illustrious career

The colour-filled career of Marion Hall Best
Interior designer Marion Hall Best had a love of colour and an uncanny ability to use it to transform a room. Museums of History NSW holds the largest collection of Best’s work

The Society of Interior Designers of Australia (SIDA)
An introduction to the founding, role and objectives of SIDA

Sydney visionaries
Cities are collective enterprises that reflect the decisions, dreams and lives of innumerable citizens, past and present