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Celebrate International Women’s Day with Our ‘Designing Women’ Series

Without resorting to Google, how many 20th-century female industrial designers can you name? We’re hoping that most of our readers have no trouble thinking of Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand, Eva Zeisel and perhaps a few others. But we’re guessing that very few of you came up with more than six or seven names total. Not that we did a lot better ourselves—the unfortunate truth is that women designers’ contributions to the field just haven’t gotten much exposure and celebration over the years.