Constance Abernathy

Who was Constance Abernathy?

Constance Abernathy was an American architect. She Born in Detroit, Michigan, Abernathy attended Cass Technical High School and University of Michigan Architecture school. She worked on a special project studying with Buckminster Fuller to create the geodesic dome egg carton form of architecture. The books she made documenting the project were recently donated to the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. She flew under the St. Louis arch in a plane with Fuller and she functioned as Fuller's secretary maintaining sections of his files and archives.

She married J. T. Abernathy, a potter and art professor at University of Michigan in the 1950s but their union did not last long. She left Ann Arbor, Michigan for Paris shortly after, arriving in the swinging scene of the Paris 1960s. She worked as an architect all over Europe and married a filmmaker.

She started to collect beads and fabrics from Morocco. After her French divorce, she moved to New York City and became a jeweler in the Chelsea area. In New York City she befriended and worked with many famous artists.