Susan Kozma-Orlay

Susan Kozma-Orlay
Kozma-Orlay, c. 1930s
Born1913
Hungary
Died2008 (aged 94–95)
Australia
Alma mater
OccupationArchitect, designer, furniture designer
Parent(s)
  • Lajos Kozma Edit this on Wikidata
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Susan Kozma-Orlay (born Zsuzsa Kozma; 1913–2008) was a Hungarian-Australian mid-century modernist designer.[1]

Biography

Zsuzsa Kozma was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. Her father was the architect and critic Lajos Kozma [hu].[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

  • 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

  1. ^ "Orlay, Susan (1913–)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Susan Orlay biography, Design & Art Australia Online". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Susan Kozma-Orlay". The Other Moderns. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  4. ^ a b "The Other Moderns: Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy | The Dictionary of Sydney". The Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  5. ^ "About". Bartex. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  6. ^ Lush, Rebecca (1 August 2017). "Museum of Sydney: The Moderns". Museum of Sydney via Curate Your Own Adventure. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Drinks Trolley, 1938–1939 (designed), Zsuzsa Kozma". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  8. ^ "The sophisticated Modern home · V&A". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Sydney's forgotten mid-century modernists". Australian Financial Review. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  10. ^ 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.