Timeline

Evelyn, a nationally recognized expert on antique toys, coauthors Schoenhut’s Humpty Dumpty Circus from A to Z.

Jerome designs a gourmet line of knife holders, spice racks, and other kitchen accessories using designs from this group.

Evelyn designs a set of 20 modular Animal Woodblocks, which are marketed by both Forms+Surfaces and ERA.

Evelyn’s carved wood modular series Uccello, for Forms+Surfaces, is used for the doors and transom of the Alan Ladd Building, Palm Springs.

As artist-in-charge, Evelyn creates a set of 12 needlepoint wall hangings for the corporate offices of Litton Industries, Beverly Hills. The 6´ x 8´ tapestries are hand embroidered by skilled artists in Greece based on full-size drawings.

Responding to a market need for well-designed, contemporary cabinet hardware, Jerome designs the Antico line of hand-cast solid brass knobs and pulls, some with inlays, and has them produced in Italy.

Evelyn creates do-it-yourself finger puppet kits as a fund-raiser for her daughter’s nursery school and they are later sold through ERA and featured in House and Garden. ERA outgrows the showroom on Melrose and moves to Beverly Boulevard in the heart of the design trade and across from Herman Miller.

Experimenting with a new material, hydrostone, Evelyn creates a series of nursery rhyme bas-relief plaques and functional three-dimensional pieces.

Evelyn designs and produces a mosaic wall panel, Women Under an Umbrella, which is selected by leading interior designer Henry End for the Carlton Towers Hotel, London.