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Adler-Schnee Associates [-. USA. Textile Design Company]
Adler-Schnee Associates [-. USA. Textile Design Company]
Adler-Schnee Associates was a textile design partnership founded in Detroit, Michigan by the German-born Ruth Adler (1923-) and her husband, Edward Schnee, an economics graduate from Yale University, in c.1949. She, responsible for the design side, and he cutting the screens and printing them. They also ran a retail outlet called ‘Adler Schnee’, in Detroit, and collaborated with other designers on commissions. These included Richard Buckminster Fuller with whom they designed the furnishing for the Ford Rotunda in Detroit (1952-53), and Minoru Yamasaki on the design of the interiors of the World Trade Center in New York City (1970-77). [For further information about Ruth Adler see the text of an interview with her conducted by her daughter, Anita Schnee, at the artist’s home in Southfield, Michigan, 24-30 November 2002, undertaken as part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America:
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