Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000

the long version

The essays in this illustrated book focus on the many contributions of women designers to twentieth-century American culture. Ranging from textiles and ceramics to furniture and fashion, the book features the achievements of women of various ethnic and cultural groups, including both famous designers (Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Donna Karan) and their less well-known colleagues. Contains: Women designers and the Arts and Crafts Movement ; The sacred hoop: native American women designers ; "Three strikes against me": African American women designers ; "Wellpaying self support": women textile designers in the USA ; Tradition and transformation: women quilt designers ; Women fashioning American fashion ; Women jewelry designers ; Women metalsmiths ; Designing Hollywood: women costume and production designers ; In "A man's world": women industrial designers ; Women furniture makers: from decorative designers to studio makers ; "A woman's place..."?: women interior designers ; Women landscape designers ; "Quietly fine" / Quietly subversive: women ceramic designers ; Colophon: women graphic designers.