Kitty Hawks

Kitty Stephen Hawks (born February 11, 1946) is an American interior designer living in New York City and Westchester, New York. She is the daughter of New York socialite Slim Keith and film director Howard Hawks and is married to Larry Lederman, a photographer and retired corporate attorney. She was previously married to Ned Tanen from April 11, 1976, to December 30, 1983.

Career Hawks graduated from Smith College and attended the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has taught residential design at the Parsons School of Interior Design, and was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2005. Hawks could be seen as unpredictable, as she told Interior Design magazine: “My work isn’t premeditated, it’s very spontaneous.”

Awards Interior Design Hall of Fame 2005