Dušana Šantel Kanoni
Dušana Šantel Kanoni was the first woman to hold a diploma in architecture from the Department of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia (1925–1932).
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Cynthia Reed
Australian writer and gallerist who promoted modern art and design in Australia in the 1930s
Annie Jouga
Annie Jouga is the first Senegalese woman to register with the Order of Architects of Senegal (1979).
Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt is one of the most important artists of the Bauhaus School, and by extension, one of the most influential of all early 20th century designers.
Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh has been called Scotland’s most famous architect, while his wife, artist Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh, has been relegated to the role of supportive spouse by art historians. Yet even Charles acknowledged that he owed Margaret much of his professional success as a partner and collaborator.
Milicent Patrick
Special effects designer Milicent Patrick created one of the most iconic film monsters of her era—the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1953).
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.”
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