Paul Chalfin

Paul Chalfin ( born November 2, 1874 in New York City; † February 15, 1959 in Upper Montclair (New Jersey) ) was an American interior designer.

The son of Colonel Samuel Fletcher Chalfin and Jane Voorhees ( Connolly ) Chalfin interrupted his studies at Harvard University after two years and enrolled at the Art Students League of New York to take painting lessons. In 1898 he was admitted to the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris, where he studied the genre painter Jean -Léon Gérôme. After two years Chalfin returned to the United States. 1903 Chalfin worked as a curator of Chinese and Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1905, he received a three-year Lazarus Scholarship for Italy.

From 1910 Chalfin worked together at the Villa Vizcaya Industriemmagnaten of James Deering with the architect F. Burrall Hoffman. Little is known about Chalfins later career. In 1956 he was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Decorators.