Modern(ist) Women: Florence Knoll
Using her architecturally-minded design aesthetics, Florence Knoll transformed the corporate design atmosphere into a realm of beautiful innovation.
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Women’s History Month
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Behind the Curtain: Midcentury Women in Textiles
The fabrics and designs of the midcentury helped define the era's homes. Here are some of the famed women behind the patterns you love.
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Modern(ist) Women: Ray Eames
Ray and Charles Eames are, arguably, design’s most famous duo. But so much of what is written about them focuses on their work and not the designers themselves. We think…
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Greta Magnusson-Grossman: An International Design Success
The designs of Greta Magnusson-Grossman became so popular throughout Sweden and the U.S., she remained one of the midcentury’s most famous women.
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Modern(ist) Women: Eva Zeisel
In an era dominated by rational, linear forms—and male players—Eva Zeisel brought warmth, organic shapes and a sense of humor into midcentury homes.
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Modern(ist) Women: Marimekko’s Armi Ratia
It’s March, which means it’s Women’s History Month! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be exploring the lives of female designers, artists and architects who have made mid century modern design…
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Women of Disney: Ruth Shellhorn’s Integral Landscape Design
It took a village of creative, problem-solving minds to bring Disneyland into three-dimensional form in 1955. An indispensable mind in this process was a woman who knew a thing or two about modernist landscape.
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Modern Makers: Jenn Ski Patterns Her Art After Midcentury Mastery
Meet an artist whose retro-inspired work is so vibrantly mid-mod that you might not be able to tell the difference between her art and a vintage piece.
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Lucienne Day: Cut From the Right Cloth
This British textile designer dreamed up patterns and designs that covered the era's homes in color and style that lives on today.
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