Clyde (Cloud)
Russell Rich, Jr.

(1935–1982)

Rich was born in Clinton NC. He attended the NCSU School of Design (photo below) where he won several honors.

He practiced in Raleigh NC then moved to New York. He met Mary Cleves Daniels, also of Raleigh, in the laundry of their apartment building. They married and had two children, divorcing in 1969. He changed his first name to Cloud around 1979. Rich was a faculty member at the Pratt Institute and a consultant to the Museum of Modern Art, participating in designing one of the wings. His office was at 144 East 24th Street. His work for Alma Daniels was on the cover of Interior Design magazine in September 1981, and he died of cancer in 1982.