Sarah Tomerlin Lee (1910–2001) was an American magazine editor and author, retail executive, and interior designer. She graduated from Randolph-Macon woman's college and joined

Bonwit Teller Bonwit Teller & Co. was an American luxury department store in New York City, founded by Paul Bonwit in 1895 at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street, and later a chain of department stores. In 1897, Edmund D. Teller was admitted to the partnership a ...

as a copywriter after college. She subsequently worked at ''Vogue'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', before moving on to

Margaret Hockaday Margaret Elizabeth Hockaday LaFarge (1907-1992) was an American executive who established the Hockaday Associates advertising firm in New York City in 1949. Career Hockaday grew up in Wichita, Kansas and graduated from Vassar College in 1929. ...

's advertising agency, and

Lord & Taylor Lord & Taylor was an American department store chain founded in 1826 by Samuel Lord. It had 86 full-line stores in the Northeastern United States at its peak in the 2000s, and 38 locations at the time of its liquidation in 2021. The Lord & Tay ...

before succeeding Elizabeth Gordon at ''House Beautiful'' in 1964. She led the interior design firm of Tom Lee, Ltd. from 1971 to 1993, and was head of the interior design division at the architectural firm of Beyer, Binder, Belle from 1993 until her retirement in 1997. Lee was responsible for the design of over forty hotels and inns in the United States.

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American interior designers 1910 births 2001 deaths {{designer-stub