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
Clara Driscoll
Long-time head of the women’s glass-cutting department at Tiffany and designer of lamps attributed to the company owners’ son
Mainie Jellett
20th century Irish artist
Gloria Vanderbilt
Heiress, artist and fashion designer
Patricia Miller
Co-founder of Vera Bradley
Barbara Bradley Baekgaard
Co-founder of Vera Bradley
Vera Wang
American fashion designer
Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel was known as a textile designer within her field for decades. But it wasn’t until The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of her wardrobe in 2005—13 years after she retired and well into her 80s—that she achieved broader recognition as an influential tastemaker.
Marie Webster
When she published her own book, Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them, in 1915, the country’s first book dedicated to quilt history became a bestseller. It also helped legitimize quilting as an art and as an important topic of scholarly research.