Doris Adeney Robertson

In July 1927, Lewis married the Principal of the Architectural Association School, the architect Howard Robertson. Her obituary in The Times in 1981 reported that from this point she decided ‘unilaterally that one architect in the family was enough’. Instead of practising as an architect, from the late 1920s she became a notable writer on architecture and worked as an interior designer, including on commissions undertaken by her husband's practice, Easton and Robertson.^[1]

She wrote on design and modern architecture, often under the name 'Doris Howard Robertson', and was responsible for designing a range of modernist interiors, including in London for the Savoy Hotel, the Berkeley Hotel and the ladies’ restaurant at the Bucks Club, Mayfair. She also designed a sitting room and living room in the house of the Marquesa de Casa Maury (Freda Dudley Ward).^[3] In 1945 her article on the 'House that Grows' for Ideal Home magazine outlined her vision of the post-war house as a multi-purpose two-storey house with a sun-terrace, air conditioning, and bathrooms on both floors: it could therefore be occupied as a single dwelling or as two flats.^[3]

Doris's husband was knighted in 1954 and she became styled as Lady Robertson. They shared a home in Montagu Square, Westminster, London. She continued to live in that house until her death in 1981.^[1]