1914 Ruby Ross Wood opens Modernist Studio and publishes a book, “The Honest House.” The studio fails but Wood reinvents herself, opening a successful firm in the early ‘20’s that bears her name. Wood started her career as a journalist and ghost wrote Elsie De Wolfe’s “The House in Good Taste.” Her rooms showed her sense of drama and refinement. She was a great colorist. Billy Baldwin, who worked for and with her for 15 years, took over her firm when she died.