Designed by Women

History, particularly the history of design, has long suffered from a singular obsession: the solitary genius. For much of the twentieth century, the narrative of modernism was written as a succession of great men who forged steel and bent wood into the future, reshaping our domestic landscapes through sheer force of individual will. This "Great Man" theory, while convenient for cataloging and auction houses, has frequently obscured the collaborative reality of how objects are made. More specifically, it has cast a long, obscuring shadow over the women who stood not merely behind these men, bu...