Gere Kavanaugh
General Information
Occupation: Industrial Designer, Exhibit Designer, Interior Designer
Date of Birth: January 01, 1929
Birth Country: United States
Resident Country: United States
Sources: Doering, Erika, Rachel Sivitzky, and Rebecca Welz. Goddess in the Details: Product Design by Women: an Exhibition Organized by the Association of Women Industrial Designers and the Department of Exhibitions At Pratt Institute. New York City: Association of Women Industrial Designers, 1994.
Specialties
Jobs
Employer: General Motors
Title: Stylist
Employer: Gere Kavanaugh/Designs
Title: Principal
Employer: Victor Gruen
Title: Designer
City: Los Angeles
State: California
Country: United States
Notes: Store and Shopping centre design
Collaborators
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
No awards on record
Exhibitions
Title: Home Sweet Home, a study of American domestic vernacular architecture
Description: Co-curated with Charles Moore for the Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angelos
Notes: Kavanaugh also designed the exhibition installation
Notable Projects
No projects on record
Education
Institution: Memphis Academy of Art
Degree: B.S.
Institution: Cranbrook Academy of Art
Degree: M.F.A.
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
No affiliations on record
Publications By
No publications by on record
Publications About
Title: The design 'adventure' of Gere Kavanaugh
Author: Ella Howard
Publication: Studies in the Decorative Arts (U.S.A.)
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 153-160
Notes: An interview with the American designer Gere Kavanaugh (b.1929). The author summarizes Kavanaugh's career as a designer working in a range of media and disciplines whose Los Angeles-based firm Gere Kavanaugh/Design, founded in 1964, has worked for a number of American corporations. In interview, Kavanaugh chronicles her training and career, crediting Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she completed the MFA programme, with an experimental, cross-disciplinary approach to learning which has since informed her work as a designer.
Title: Gere Kavanaugh [Los Angeles office interiors]
Author: Edie Cohen
Publication: Interior Design
Volume: 65
Issue: 4
Page: 1014
Date Published: January 01, 1994
Notes: Feb. 1994
Title: Territory
Author: Monica Geran
Publication: Interior Design
Volume: 59
Issue: 7
Page: 272-273
Date Published: January 01, 1988
Notes: May 1988. Los Angeles shop, designed by Gere Kavanaugh/Designs.
Title: The work of Gere Kavanaugh : profile of a designer
Author: Jim Morgan
Publication: Contract Interiors
Volume: 134
Issue: 6
Page: 70-75
Date Published: January 01, 1975
Notes: Jan. 1975
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