Mary Duncan Weed (Molly) Noyes died on July 25 in New Canaan, Conn. She was born in Boston on Sept. 23, 1915, the daughter of Charles Frederick and Mary Duncan (Walker) and was a longtime summer resident of Chilmark.
Molly was married to Eliot Noyes, architect and industrial designer, the first of the Harvard Five of New Canaan. They counted many fellow artists and architects, writers and academics among their friends and were deeply connected to the arts of their time. She was cherished for her generous hospitality and her exuberant pleasure in her friends and family.
She trained as an architect at the Cambridge School of Architecture in Cambridge, and worked professionally as an interior designer in close association with her husband at the forefront of the modern movement. She assisted with projects for several leading American corporations, including IBM, Xerox, Mobil, Westinghouse and Cummins Engine, designing interiors of corporate headquarters, executive offices, showrooms and even executive jet aircraft, and also worked on interiors for schools, libraries and private residences. She was known for her unerring eye for quality, an intuitive spatial awareness, a refined material and color sense, and for making warm, comfortable spaces.
Molly was predeceased her husband. She is survived by her four children: Mary Duncan Brust (Meridee), Eliot Jr. (Eli), Frederick, and Margaret Noyes Craig (Derry); 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She will be interred at the family burial plot in Abel’s Hill Cemetery in Chilmark.
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