Ruth Adler Schnee was a German-born American textile designer and interior designer based in Michigan. Schnee was best known for her modern prints and abstract patterns of organic and geometric forms. She opened the Ruth Adler-Schnee Design Studio with her spouse Edward Schnee in Detroit, which operated until 1960.
Ruth Adler Schnee Children: Did Ruth Adler Schnee Have Kids?
Ruth has three children. Schnee, who moved to Colorado to be closer to one of her three children and grandchildren, is being represented by some 80 textiles and other items that open her world to the public. Prestigious presenters, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, hold her work in their permanent collections.
Anita Schnee, is her daughter and is from Fayetteville, Arkansas.
In 1947, Adler Schnee met Edward Schnee, a Yale economics major whom she married in 1948. Edward Schnee was an enthusiastic supporter of Adler Schnee’s work, and an integral part of running the business side of her design studio, which became Adler/Schnee Associates, a Detroit institution for avant-garde design.
The shop’s retail department sold Adler Schnee’s own designs as well as curated modernist home décor pieces. Adler Schnee’s work continued to be critically received, winning the American Institute of Decorators Award in 1947 and 1948; the distinguished International Celanese Corporation Prize for Strata in 1950; and the Good Design Award, awarded by the curator of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1954.