Biografie von Paul Ritter MACALISTER (1901-1990)

Birth place: Camden, NJ

Addresses: Lake Bluff, IL

Profession: Designer, collector, writer, illustrator, lecturer, architect

Studied: PAFA; Sch. Indust. Design; Yale Univ. Sch. Archit.; Ecole Beaux Arts, Fontainebleau, France, with Bourdelle & Carlu.

Exhibited: Beaux Arts, 1924 (med.),1925; Permanent Exh. Dec. Arts and Crafts, 1933-35 (med.); Miniature TV Rm. Settings, AIC, 1950; Indust. Designers Inst., 1956 (silver med.); Am. Furniture Mart Press Ann., 1955 (Dorothy Dawes Award).

Member: AIC; Fel., Indust Designers Soc. Am. (pres., 1950 &1951, chmn. design award prog., 1950-60); fel., Royal Soc. Arts, London; Early Am. Industs. Assn.; Midwest Tool Collectors Assn.

Work: Astrasphere (celestial globe), Maritime Mus., Greenwich, Eng. & White House Libr.; Capellini glassware, Mus. Arts Decoratifs et Metiers, Paris, France. Commissions: Plan-A-Rm. (3-D planning device), 1940-72; Amtico Showrooms, Am. Biltrite Rubber Co., US, Can. & Europe, 1954-67; Decorama (slide film), Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo, OH, 1955.

Comments: Positions: dir., Paul MacAlister, Inc., 1926-42; designer & dir., permanent exhib. Decorative Arts & Crafts, 1933-40; comdr., USN Spec. Devices Div. & Navy Exhibs., 1942-46; dir., Bureaus Indust. & Interior Design, Montgomery Ward & Co, 1946-48; dir. & sr. partner, Paul MacAlister & Assocs., Lake Bluff, Ill., 1948-, dir., Americana Hayloft Mus., 1950-. Publications: author/illus.: "Plan-a-Room." Contributor: Times; Tribune; Arts and Decoration; etc. Position: dir, The Permanent Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Crafts, Inc. Auth., Display for Better Business, 1954; auth., articles, In: Lake Forest Acad. Antiques Show Catalog, 1969-71; contribr., var. newspapers, mags. & TV shows. Collection: American Eagle in art form; early hand tools; early scientific instruments; rare books on perspective, architecture and the arts; collections exhibited Chicago Pub. Lib., Lake Forest Acad. Antiques Show & AIC.

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