Serge Chermayeff

[6] That year, he and the French designer Paul Follot were placed in charge of the decorative arts department of Waring & Gillow.

They created important works in the British modernist movement, notably the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, East Sussex, Cohen House, London, and Shrubs Wood (formerly Nimmo House) in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.

He also designed Bentley Wood, a Modernist house in a rural location in the Low Weald in Sussex, completed in 1938.

[13] Chermayeff taught in 1940 and 1941 at the California School of Fine Arts before moving to Brooklyn College, where he served as chair of the department of design until 1946.

[14][5][15] In 1946, he was recommended by Walter Gropius to become the president of the Institute of Design in Chicago; there, he was a close friend and mentor to Robert Brownjohn.

Chermayeff's architectural drawings, project records, photographs, correspondence, teaching and writing papers, and research files are held by the Dept.