Marion Hall Best
![Textile length, screenprinted, c1941](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/547ed3556dd44c4b88ef4fdd04feffbe.jpg)
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
![Showroom of Marion Best Pty Ltd at 153 Queen Street, Woollahra. 1968](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/01/ce7c9dbbbd3644a6948bdd3d31e0b967.jpg)
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
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Sydney visionaries
Cities are collective enterprises that reflect the decisions, dreams and lives of innumerable citizens, past and present
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The Society of Interior Designers of Australia (SIDA)
An introduction to the founding, role and objectives of SIDA
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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