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Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art academies in protest of limited creative autonomy, Parsons is one of the oldest schools of art and design in New York.
Former Parsons headquarters in Pasadena, California. Parsons was founded by Ralph M. Parsons in 1944. [2] Emerging at the end of World War II, Parsons' location in Los Angeles, proximity to organizations such as the Naval Air and Missile Test Center, Air Force Western Development Division (WDD) and Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO), [8] and partnership with Aerojet Engineering, [9 ...
From 1978 until 1991, it was affiliated with New York's Parsons School of Design and known as Otis–Parsons (full name: Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, a division of the New School for Social Research). [9] This affiliation allowed students to spend a semester or more at the Parsons schools in New York and Paris.
Gilbert Adrian (1903–1959), costume designer; Princess Angela of Liechtenstein (born 1958), previously known as Angela Gisela Brown, Panamanian-American fashion designer and the wife of Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein.
Parsons High School is well-noted for its excellence in debate and forensics, having won several individual and team state championships in both debate and forensics. Parsons was the first school to win the 4-speaker and 2-speaker state debate championships in the same year, doing so in 1993, the first year that the 2-speaker championships ...
The presence of Parsons in Paris dates back to 1921, when Frank Alvah Parsons opened the Paris Ateliers of the then New York School of Fine and Applied Art. [6] The following year, the school made its home on the oldest planned square in Paris, the Place des Vosges. The school offered courses in architecture, interior decoration, stage design ...
Parsons School of Design, part of The New School, New York City Parsons Paris (2013), Paris school under Parsons School of Design; Parsons College, a former private college in Fairfield, Iowa, closed in 1973; Parsons Senior High School, Parsons, Kansas
The Parsons table was designed by Jean-Michel Frank while he was working at Parsons Paris, then known as the Paris Atelier. While the form is generally credited to Parsons School of Design in New York City , according to an article in The New York Times that referred to Parson's archives, the table was developed out of a course taught at ...