Ray Eames
While Charles Eames was the public face of their architecture and furniture design partnership, he was always quick to acknowledge his wife, Ray, as an equal, or even superior, saying “Anything I can do, Ray can do better.”
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Aino Aalto
Finnish designer
Marie Krøyer
Danish painter Marie Krøyer’s first marriage was to one of the most famous painters in Danish history. It was not until after her daughter’s death in 1986 that Marie’s own art gained recognition, as her paintings were among the estate and were eventually collected by the Skagens Museum in Skagen, Denmark.
Victorine du Pont Homsey
Victorine du Pont Homsey, FAIA, earned a master’s degree in architecture from Smith College in 1925. With her husband, she founded an architectural firm in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1929 and was in practice for fifty years.
Louisa Beaufort
1800s Welsh antiquarian, artist, entomologist and writer
Elizabeth Coldicutt
Beth Coldicutt taught in the Faculties of Engineering and Architecture, University of Melbourne 1939-1979, beginning as a senior demonstrator and ending as a Reader.
Marion Mahony Griffin
American architect
Alice Hands
Co-founder of the US’s first female architectural partnership in 1894.
Elsa Gidoni
Elsa Gidoni fled Berlin in 1933, but spent five years in Tel Aviv designing buildings in the International Style before moving to New York in 1938.
Hilde Reiss
Bauhaus-trained architect Hilde Reiss was among the émigrés who served as ambassadors for the new style in the United States. In 1946, she was hired by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis to serve as the curator of its new Everyday Art Gallery, one of the first museum spaces in the country devoted to modern design.