Rose Cumming
American interior decorator
About Rose Cumming
Lived 1887 – 1968 (aged 80–81). Rose Cumming was an interior designer.
Rose Cumming (1887 – March 21, 1968 ) was a flamboyant and eccentric interior decorator whose career was based in New York.
Biography Rose Cumming was born on an Australian sheep station in New South Wales. In 1917 she came to New York with her sister, silent-screen actress Dorothy Cumming. She worked for Mary Buehl before opening her own shop in 1921. Cumming's shop was her decorating office and a retail shop for antiques and fabrics.
She was known for chinoiserie,
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American interior decorator
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Rose Cumming was born in 1887.
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Rose Cumming died in 1968.
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Rose Cumming was an interior designer.
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