Florence Elizabeth Cory, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Florence Elizabeth Cory

American industrial designer

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1851

Date of Death: 20-Mar-1902

Profession: designer

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Florence Elizabeth Cory (June 4, 1851 - March 20, 1902) was an American industrial designer and school founder.
She was the first practical woman designer in the United States. Cory took up designing in 1877, being led to it by the sight of ugly carpets.
After a course of theory in Cooper Union, she visited representative factories of the United States, and became familiar with the practical end of the business.
She became a designer of wall paper, woolens and silks, as well as carpets.
In 1878, Cory taught an afternoon class of 17 women pupils in Cooper Union the art of designing practically for carpets.
This was the first class as far as known ever formed to teach practical industrial design to women.
In 1880, Cory taught a class of practical design in the Woman's Art Association on Fourteenth Street in New York; and in 1881, she founded the School of Industrial Art and Technical Design for Women, 134 Fifth Avenue, New York.