Susan Kozma-Orlay
Susan Kozma-Orlay | |
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.jpg) Kozma-Orlay, c. 1930s | |
| Born | 1913 Hungary |
| Died | 2008 (aged 94–95) Australia |
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| Occupation | Architect, designer, furniture designer |
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Susan Kozma-Orlay (born Zsuzsa Kozma; 1913–2008) was a Hungarian-Australian mid-century modernist designer.[1]
Biography
[edit]Zsuzsa Kozma was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. Her father was the architect and critic Lajos Kozma.[2][3]
She attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in both Stuttgart and Vienna, where she studied furniture design and graphic design.[2][3] She then worked in her father's Vienna architecture studio until his activity was curtailed by anti-Jewish restrictions. After the war, in the late 1940s, she married and emigrated to Australia (where she Anglicised her name to Susan Orlay).[2][4]
Her career in Australia spanned textile design, illustration, store displays and graphics for the department store David Jones, furniture design, and interior design.[4][5]
Her work was exhibited in the exhibition The Moderns: European Designers in Sydney at the Museum of Sydney in 2017,[6] and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert museum in London.[7][8][9][10]
Publications
[edit]- Hawcroft, Rebecca (2017). "From the Margins to the Mainstream". The Other Moderns: Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy. Sydney: (NewSouth) University of New South Wales Press Limited. pp. 165–190. ISBN 978-1742235561.
- Shapira, Elana (2021). Designing Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-1350172296.
References
[edit]- ^ "Orlay, Susan (1913–)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ a b c "Susan Orlay biography, Design & Art Australia Online". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
- ^ a b "Susan Kozma-Orlay". The Other Moderns. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
- ^ a b "The Other Moderns: Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy | The Dictionary of Sydney". The Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
- ^ "About". Bartex. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Lush, Rebecca (2017-08-01). "Museum of Sydney: The Moderns". Curate Your Own Adventure. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
- ^ "Drinks Trolley, 1938–1939 (designed), Zsuzsa Kozma". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
- ^ "The sophisticated Modern home · V&A". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
- ^ "Sydney's forgotten mid-century modernists". Australian Financial Review. 2017-07-20. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
- ^ Bogle, Michael (2017-01-01). "Design & Architecture Training in Middle Europe between the Wars and the Reception of European Émigré Architects and Designers in Australia". [chapter in] The Other Moderns: Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy, Rebecca Hawcroft, editor. UNSW Press.
| Artists | |
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| People | |
- 1913 births
- 2008 deaths
- Australian people of Hungarian descent
- Australian industrial designers
- Australian furniture designers
- Australian women graphic designers
- Australian women architects
- Hungarian women graphic designers
- Hungarian industrial designers
- Hungarian furniture designers
- Hungarian graphic designers
- Hungarian women architects
- State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart alumni
- Hungarian-Australian culture