Learned Tag

Multihyphenate monikers at the moment are very much a thing with influencers and wannabes alike. But many years before interdisciplinary design became such a self-defining salary track, the husband-and-wife team of Tom Lee and Sarah Tomerlin Lee exercised their design dexterity working at malls, in interiors, theater, magazine publishing and architecture. Their largely unheralded skilled lives are the main focus of a recent exhibition on the Latest York School of Interior Design, and can also be accessible online. On view until Dec. 5, “Designing Duo: Tom Lee and Sarah Tomerlin Lee” draws from the couple’s archives, which have been donated to the Upper East Side academic institution. Constructing an archive of interior designers’ work was a part of the impetus...