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Ogden Codman Jr. (January 19, 1863 – January 8, 1951) was an American architect and interior decorator in the Beaux-Arts styles, and co-author with Edith Wharton of The Decoration of Houses (1897), which became a standard in American interior design.
Some fifty years before the Historic American Building Survey was launched, he began to make measured architectural drawings and photographs of colonial buildings in and around Boston (especially the work of Samuel McIntyre and Charles Bulfinch), as well as New York, Philadelphia, and Washington.
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Ogden Codman, Jr. was an influential early 20th-century interior designer and residential architect, most famous for the publication The Decoration of Houses (1897) with future novelist Edith Wharton.
Wharton's sometime collaborator, Ogden Codman, Jr., assisted with the architectural design. Wharton's niece, Beatrix Jones Farrand, designed the kitchen garden and the drive; Farrand was the only woman of the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects .
- 1902
- 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox
- November 11, 1971
Overview. Title: The Decoration of Houses. Author: Ogden Codman, Jr. (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1868–1951 Grégy-sur-Yerre) Author: Edith Wharton (American, 1862–1937) Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY) Published in: New York. Date: 1902. Classification: Books.
Ogden Codman Jr. was an influential American architect and interior decorator who designed Kykuit’s interiors in 1909. He is most well known for coauthoring the seminal design manual The Decoration of Houses (1897) with Edith Wharton.
