Daughter of Slim Keith and Howard 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.[ 1] She was previously married to Ned Tanen from April 11, 1976, to December 30, 1983.[ 2]
Career
Hawks graduated from Smith College and attended the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles .[ 1] After working as an agent for International Creative Management in Los Angeles, she moved to New York City, where she worked as creative director for Perry Ellis [ 1] and Stendig Furniture before starting her own interior design firm. She was first commissioned in 1988 to decorate an apartment in New York's Hotel des Artistes . Since then her clients have included Tom Brokaw , Candice Bergen , Agnes Gund , Michael Ovitz , Mike Nichols , and Diane Sawyer .[ 3] She served for over 10 years as a board member of The Design Trust for Public Space and the Municipal Art Society of New York.[ 4] She has taught residential design at the Parsons School of Interior Design , and was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2005.[ 3] [ 5] Hawks could be seen as unpredictable, as she told Interior Design magazine : “My work isn’t premeditated, it’s very spontaneous.”[ 6]
Awards
Interior Design Hall of Fame 2005[ 3]
References
^ a b c Norwich, William (May 11, 1998). "Kitty Hawks Has Good Taste". The New York Observer .
^ California, U.S., Marriage Index, 1960-1985; California, U.S., Divorce Index, 1966-1984
^ a b c "Kitty Hawks" . Past Inductees . Interior Design . Archived from the original on October 4, 2013.
^ "Kitty Hawks" . Municipal Art Society . Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013 .
^ "Kitty Hawks" . The New School . Archived from the original on January 19, 2012.
^ Chen, Aric (May 31, 2014). "Kitty Hawks: 2005 Hall of Fame Inductee" . Interior Design . Archived from the original on August 7, 2020.