Ogden Codman Jr.

Ogden Codman Jr. was an American architect and interior decorator specializing in Beaux-Arts styles, best known as co-author with Edith Wharton of The Decoration of Houses (1897), a seminal work in American interior design.[1][2] Born into a prominent Boston family, he trained under architects in Massachusetts before establishing his practice in New York and Newport, designing interiors for clients like Cornelius Vanderbilt II and John D. Rockefeller Jr.[2][3] He later lived in France, dying at his Château de Grégy in 1951.[1][4]