Woman Made: Great Women Designers

Woman Made: Great Women Designers'Thoroughly international in scope, [Woman Made] is a compendium of disarming surprises.' Wall Street Journal The most comprehensive, fully illustrated book on women designers ever published a celebration of more than 200 women product designers from the early twentieth century to the present day This glorious visual celebration of the most incredible and impactful design ever produced by women designers flips the script on what is historically

'Thoroughly international in scope, [Woman Made] is a compendium of disarming surprises.' - Wall Street Journal

The most comprehensive, fully illustrated book on women designers ever published - a celebration of more than 200 women product designers from the early twentieth century to the present day

This glorious visual celebration of the most incredible and impactful design ever produced by women designers flips the script on what is historically considered a man's world. Featuring more than 200 designers from more than 50 countries, including icons and trailblazers past and present such as Ray Eames, Eileen Gray, Florence Knoll, Ilse Crawford, Faye Toogood, Nathalie du Pasquier, it records and illuminates the fascinating and overlooked history of women preeminent in the field.

With each designer represented by a key product and short text, this fascinating A-Z survey shines a vital spotlight on the most extraordinary objects made by women designers but, more importantly, offers a compelling primer on the best in the field of design demonstrating that design is not - and never has been - a man's world.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Jane Hall
Published: 10/13/2021
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9781838662851
Pages: 264
Weight: 3.92lbs
Size: 11.60h x 10.10w x 1.00d

About the Author

Jane Hall is the inaugural recipient of the British Council Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship (2013) and a founding member of Assemble, the London-based, Turner Prize-winning collective. Jane's own projects within the collective focus on collaborative practice between artists and architects, explored through exploratory installation and exhibition design. She is the author of Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women published by Phaidon in 2019.