Vee Nisley wallpaper samples and ephemera for the Sandpiper Apartments (Palm Desert, Calif.) 0000383

Finding aid prepared by Julia Larson

Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum

Arts Building Room 1434

University of California

Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130

805-893-2724

adc@museum.ucsb.edu

9/30/2019

Title: Vee Nisley wallpaper samples and ephemera for the Sandpiper Apartments (Palm Desert, Calif.)

Identifier/Call Number: 0000383

Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 4.0 Linear feet 7 rolls of wallpaper, two ceramic tiles, 4 posters, 3 magazines

Date: 1959-1989

Location note: Offsite drawers- D132-D133; ADC regular- 1 box

creator: Nisley, Vee

creator: Vee Nisley and Associates.

Biographical/Historical note

Born Violet Marie Hart in 1913 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vee Nisley graduated from the Milwaukee Art Institute's Layton School of Art in 1939. She opened her own design studio after graduation, then became an aviator for the Women's Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. In 1945 she moved to the Coachella Valley to open vineards in Indio and Thermal. Vee Nisley was an interior designer in the Coachella Valley of California from the late 1940s until the 1980s. Nisley had an office in Rancho Mirage, then in Palm Desert along Highway 111. She designed the interiors for many of the new developments in the desert, including the Sandpiper Development. She died in 2003.

Custodial History note

Gift of Linda Holden Clode, 2019

Conditions Governing Access note

Partially processed collection; open for use by qualified researchers

Conditions Governing Use note

Scope and Contents note

This collection contains materials used in the Sandpiper Apartments interior design. It includes 7 rolls of wall paper, two ceramic tiles, one wood trim piece with paint samples, three copies of Palm Springs Life magazine which contain advertisements by Nisley, and four poster-board displays containing original and photocopied invoices, receipts, photographs, letters, and notes about Vee Nisley and her designs for the Sandpiper Apartments (compiled by Linda Holden Clode).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Nisley, Vee

Vee Nisley and Associates.