Le Corbusier - what a name!
The native Swiss, who was actually called Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, is undeniably one of the most important architects of the 20th century.
It has only been known for a few years that much of what is attributed to him, especially furniture and interior fittings from the late twenties and early thirties, was not designed by him, but by his much younger colleague Charlotte Perriand.
The French woman and many of her creative contemporaries around the world did not find their way into the history books of design for a long time because they were often only women at the side of men who wrongly outshone them.
Peter-Philipp Schmitt
Editor in the section “Germany and the World”.
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The Vitra Design Museum is dedicating an exhibition entitled “Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today ”. Works by around 80 women will be shown, among them formative figures of the modern age such as Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand, Lilly Reich and Clara Porset, entrepreneurs such as Florence Knoll and Armi Ratia, but also lesser-known personalities such as the social reformer Jane Addams.
The present and future are not forgotten either and are represented by designers such as Matali Crasset, Patricia Urquiola, Julia Lohmann and the collective Matri Archi (tecture). They reflect a new era in which almost half of design and architecture students are female. It was very different 100 years ago when Eva Stricker studied at the Art Academy in Budapest. She devoted herself to ceramics and worked for the Schramberg majolica factory in the late twenties. In 1932 she went to the USSR. She finally came to the United States via Austria. As a Jew, she and her future husband Hans Zeisel had to leave Europe. Eva Stricker-Zeisel designed crockery, glasses and furniture up to the old age of 105. Ten years after her death, the exhibition now also commemorates this outstanding artist.
"Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 - Today ”, 23 September 2021 to 6 March 2022, Vitra Design Museum