* Adele Faulkner Quinn; Pioneering Interior Designer

Adele Faulkner Quinn, 89, the first woman to be named a fellow by the American Society of Interior Designers. Born Adele Faulkner in Los Angeles, she went to Woodbury College and started in the interior design business in the 1930s. Her clients included the silent film star Harold Lloyd and later the singing star Carmen Miranda. The designer’s career included corporate work and teaching interior design at UCLA. In the 1960s, her work for the Lytton Savings & Loan Building in Canoga Park earned a national award from the American Society of Interior Designers. She received her second national award in 1969 for her work in designing Boys Town of the Desert in Beaumont, Calif. Over the last 20 years of her life, Quinn designed all five of the Interval House Crisis Shelters for battered women and children in Orange County. She also was a board member of Interval House. On Sunday in Sunset Beach.