“Offering an alternative, femalefocused history, Women in Design is an essential new tome dedicated to the innovators who have shaped the design world” ELLE Decoration

Featuring more than 100 profiles of pioneering women designers, including some who have achieved global recognition, like Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand and Zaha Hadid. The book also introduces the fascinating and often untold stories of lesserknown women who shaped design history.

An excerpt from the book:

“This book is, first and foremost, a celebration of some truly remarkable women whose careers in design have been exceptional. They can rightly be called exceptional because, despite the odds stacked against them, the women featured here created significant bodies of work within what was and to a certain extent still is the maledominated field of design.

This book attempts to tell a very different story, one that appraises their activities within the wider landscape of the feminist movement both past and present. It is only now that women designers working in developed freemarket economies are beginning to enjoy anything like equality with their male counterparts when it comes to professional access and recognition, let alone parity of remuneration. As for women living elsewhere in the world, having any kind of professional career, let alone one in design, is still often largely an impossible dream.”