Marion Hall Best

Textile length, screenprinted, c1941

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

Exttremely colourful interior of room.

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

Marion Best Pty Ltd schemes for flats 1-6 of Seven Elizabeth Street, Sydney, c1939

The interior design of Seven Elizabeth Street

Marion Hall Best, known professionally as Marion Best, was one of Australia’s pre-eminent interior designers and her first major commission was the fit out of the new apartment block, Seven Elizabeth Street, in 1939–40

Showroom of Marion Best Pty Ltd at 153 Queen Street, Woollahra. 1968

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

Sydney visionaries

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