Charlotte Clare Nauheim [also known as Clare Nauheim; Charlotte Clare Railing; and as Lady Railing] was born in Hampstead, London on 9 March 1896. She trained as an architect at University College, London, after which she worked in the London office of Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944). Following her marriage to electrical engineer Adolph Harry Railing (1878-1963) in 1933, she practised under the name Charlotte Clare Railing.
A photograph of a kitchen designed by her is illustrated in The Book of the Modern House, edited by Patrick Abercrombie (1939 p. 359). She was a trustee of the Housing Centre from 1950 to 1959.
Her address was given as 32. Montagu Square, London in 1939. She died at her home, 12 Gloucester Square London on 18 November 1959
‘Obituary’. Housing Review vols. 8-9, 1959 p. 3.