设计师Gere Kavanaugh是一股势不可挡的自然力量，她象征了60年代和70年代美国加利福尼亚州设计行业的工艺和民俗氛围，如今仍然是传奇风云人物。Kavanaugh在田纳西州孟菲斯长大，于1952年获得克兰布鲁克艺术学院设计课程学位，当时仅有三位女性获得该学位，而她是第三位。在成功担任美国通用汽车公司所谓的“设计小姐”和维克托•格伦(Victor Gruen)建筑与规划公司的室内装修设计主管后，她创办了Gere Kavanaugh设计公司。在那里，Kavanaugh将自己独特的标志留在了织物、家具、玩具、绘画、商店与餐厅室内装潢、假日装饰、居家用品和公共艺术品上——甚至在设计和策划展览会时也能看见。但是她最久盛不衰的作品也许是对她自己生活方式和住宅所进行的充满欢乐的、无限制的、持续进行的实验——一个充满色彩和手工艺品的梦境。

Kavanaugh曾于2016年获得美国平面设计协会（AIGA）奖项，表彰她“伟大而博闻强识的设计方式”。

The designer Gere Kavanaugh is an irrepressible force of nature who epitomized the craft and folk vibe of the '60s and '70s California design scene and remains a larger-than-life personality today.
Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Kavanaugh became in 1952 only the third woman to earn a degree in Cranbrook Academy of Art's design program. After successful stints as one of GM's so-

called Damsels of Design and as director of interiors for Victor Gruen's architecture and planning firm, she opened Gere Kavanaugh/Designs. There, Kavanaugh put her unique stamp on textiles, furniture, toys, graphics, store and restaurant interiors, holiday decor, housewares, and public art―even designing and curating exhibitions. But perhaps her most enduring project has been the joyful, open-ended, ongoing experiment of her own lifestyle and homes, a dream of color and handcraft.
Kavanaugh was awarded the AIGA Medal in 2016, recognizing her "prodigious and polymathic approach to design."