Harry Lee Hinson, Interior Designer

Harry Lee Hinson, an interior designer who founded Hinson & Company, a leading wallpaper, textile, and lighting company, died on Sept. 4 at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Hospital in Manhattan. He was 76.

Mr. Hinson, who lived in New York and had a house on Old Beach Lane in East Hampton, came to New York in 1962 after graduating from the Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He worked as a designer for Bloomingdale’s and Bonwit Teller before co-founding Quadrille, a major fabric supplier. In 1971 he established Hinson & Company.

Jennifer Boles, a writer whose influential blog, The Peak of Chic, has earned her a place in the Design Bloggers Hall of Fame, wrote in a tribute to Mr. Hinson, “Of all of the fabric lines that I admire (and there are many), it is Hinson that is probably the dearest to me. The Hinson ‘look’ — classic yet modern, tailored, never trying too hard, and thoroughly American — most closely aligns with my aesthetic.”

Harry Lee Hinson was born on March 30, 1938, in Rocky Mount, N.C., to Harry L. Hinson and the former Dorothy Horne. He grew up in North Carolina before moving to Richmond and, subsequently, New York City, where he served on the vestry at St. Bartholomew’s Church.

On June 6, 2013, he married Clyde Vernon (Tripp) March III, who survives him. The two first met in 1984 at a party at the home of Bobby Metzger, an interior designer, in East Hampton, but didn’t see each other again until two years later at a Christmas party. They were together from then on.

A private service will be held at a later date. Ashes will be dispersed at the Chapel of the Resurrection at St. Thomas Church in Manhattan. Mr. March has suggested memorial contributions to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York 10065.