Just ask the question to arouse astonishment: do you expose the work of a woman designer in your booth? This is an innocuous question, but as International Women's Day approaches, on March 8th, we quickly realize that by posing it, we put our finger on an essentially masculine reality. Women in design are rare! And their production is even more so. Little represented because of lack of evidence could one say. Yet great names have made their mark on the history of furniture and art: Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray, Suzanne Ramier and Gae Aulenti to name a few. These creators of the postwar period, signs of a feminine emancipation, owe a lot to the pioneers and freedmen of the Thirties of Chanel to Line Vautrin passing by Marie Chauvel. All have opened a path whose heirs are still few today ...
Women and Design, a discreet elegance
