The next window dedication on Main Street, U.S.A. is around the corner from Robert Jani and Charles Corson’s windows, on the portion of the Emporium designed to look like green stone.
Portion of Emporium with Emile Kuri's Window
The window reads:
Home Sweet Home
Interior Decorators
Emile Kuri
Proprietor
Windows on Main Street – Emile Kuri
Emile Kuri was a set director who won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more, several of which were produced by The Walt Disney Company. Kuri won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction – Set Decoration in 1949 for the black-and-white film Heiress and again in 1954 for the color film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (he was the designer of Captain Nemo’s headquarters on the Nautilus). In addition to those wins, he received nominations for Silver Queen (1942), Carrie (1952), Executive Suite (1954), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Mary Poppins (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Besides his Academy Award nominations and victories, Kuri was set designer for The Love Bug and The Parent Trap and designed the Main Street setting of Jimmy Stewart’s hometown in It’s a Wonderful Life.
Walt Disney hired Emile Kuri in 1952 as chief director for the Walt Disney Studios, where he designed the offices for many of the company’s executives. After working at the Studios, Kuri became chief interior and exterior decoration for Disneyland and later served as a consultant for designs at Walt Disney World. It is for these many fantastic accomplishments that Emile Kuri is honored with a window on Main Street, U.S.A.
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