Ruth Adler Schnee Husband: Was Ruth Adler Schnee Married?

Ruth Adler Schnee was a German-born American textile designer and interior designer based in Michigan. Schnee was best known for her modern prints and abstract patterns of organic and geometric forms. She opened the Ruth Adler-Schnee Design Studio with her spouse Edward Schnee in Detroit, which operated until 1960.

Ruth Adler Schnee Husband: Was Ruth Adler Schnee Married?

In 1947, Adler Schnee met Edward Schnee, a Yale economics major whom she married in 1948. Edward Schnee was an enthusiastic supporter of Adler Schnee’s work, and an integral part of running the business side of her design studio, which became Adler/Schnee Associates, a Detroit institution for avant-garde design.

The shop’s retail department sold Adler Schnee’s own designs as well as curated modernist home décor pieces. Adler Schnee’s work continued to be critically received, winning the American Institute of Decorators Award in 1947 and 1948; the distinguished International Celanese Corporation Prize for Strata in 1950; and the Good Design Award, awarded by the curator of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1954.

The Adler Schnee family grew throughout the 1950s with the birth of her children, Anita, Jeremy, and Daniel Schnee. Adler/Schnee Associates moved to the Harmonie Park area of downtown Detroit where it operated until its closure in 1976.