Women in Design

Lumens is celebrating Women in Design who’ve inspired generations of women to take their place in the largely male-dominated fields of architecture and design. Read on to learn more about the Pioneers who’ve founded movements and design innovations, the Disruptors of the status quo and the Trendsetters leading the way. 

Women in Design Summit

March 28 at 9am Pacific

Join Lumens for two live conversations with thought leaders of the design industry and earn CEU credit.

The first panel will be a Designer Round Table moderated by Lumens VP of Growth + Innovation Patricia Kittredge and featuring designers Patricia Urquiola, Thabisa Mjo, Rosie Li, Lucie Koldova, Constance Guisset, Jette Scheib and Emiliana Martinelli.

The second panel, The Business of Design, will be moderated by Lumens CEO Laura Walsh and feature prominent executives and curators: Roberta Silva, Carlotta de Bevilacqua, Joana Bover, Amelie Du Passage and Benedicte Collod.

Each panel discussion will end with a 15-minute Q+A with the audience.

Women in Design

Pioneers

Disruptors

Trendsetters

Pioneers

Disruptors

Trendsetters

Women in Design Summit

March 28 at 9am Pacific

Join Lumens for two live conversations with thought leaders of the design industry and earn CEU credit.

Pioneers

Often breaking ground in more ways than one, these pioneering women led the way for entire artistic eras and movements, introduced new techniques and innovated the business of design.

Anna Castelli Ferrieri

The Kartell co-founder’s Componibili storage collection debuted at Salone de Mobile in 1967. The first modular plastic furniture of its kind, Ferrieri set out to create an innovative design that would be both beautiful and functional—and now more than a half century later, the icon can be found in the permanent collections of New York’s MoMA and Paris’ Centre Pompidou, and in homes and offices around the world.

Greta Grossman: The Face of Swedish Modernism

All but forgotten for decades, this Scandinavian original has rightfully reclaimed her place among the greats of mid-century modern design.

Photo by Jeannette Montgomery Barron

Founding Member of the Memphis Group, Martine Bedin

A conversation with founding member of the Memphis Group on the infamous night when the group launched and why we’ve seen a recent uptick in interest in Memphis Group designs.

Charlotte Perriand

Strongly influenced by the work of Le Corbusier (whom she began assisting at the age of 24), Perriand’s work took a minimalist, highly functional approach to interior spaces. Followers of the French architect say that her lighting designs were not conceived by the mind of a designer, but by the mind of an architect—that Perriand thrived in designing and scaling fixtures for the individual spaces for which they’d been created.

Charlotte Perriand

Photo ©Courtesy of Knoll Archive

The Woman Behind the Brand: Florence Knoll

The heart of Knoll’s success was matriarch Florence Knoll, who influenced a generation and helped adapt modernism for the masses.

Celebrating Lilly Reich, Co-Designer of the Barcelona Chair

Though her legacy went largely unnoted for the last half-century, the name Lilly Reich will forever be engrained into the history of German modernist design.

Photo by Megan Senior

A Q+A with Sandy Chilewich

For nearly 20 years through her namesake company, Sandy Chilewich has redefined the world of textiles for the table and floor, indoors and out.

Celebrating Lilly Reich, Co-Designer of the Barcelona Chair

Photo by Megan Senior

A Q+A with Sandy Chilewich

Ray Eames: The Foremother of Good Design

Even if she was rarely given the spotlight, Ray was as strong a force in the world of mid-century modern design as her partner Charles, who said it best: “Whatever I can do, Ray can do better.”

Disruptors

When the industry needed a new direction, these disruptors shook the tree. From radical new design principles to introducing Free-Trade sourcing, these women turned the old guard on its ear and the design world is now a better place for it.

Joana Bover

In the heart of Spain’s creative community, Joana Bover and her talented team bring the Bover brand’s adaptive spirit and romantic outlook to light.

A Q+A with Carlotta de Bevilacqua

A formally trained architect with decades of lighting design experience, the Artemide CEO understands the interplay between lighting and space—and the interplay of creativity and innovation it takes to run a world-renowned design company.

Queen of the Curve: An Interview with Zaha Hadid

Our 2015 interview with the incomparable designer about the early days of her architecture career, painting and product design, and what it meant to be a woman in the design world.

Rossana Hu

The co-founder of Neri + Hu and Creative Director at Stellar Works mingles interdisciplinary techniques across research, architecture, urban planning and product design to answer the questions raised by ever-accelerating globalization.

Kelly Wearstler

Her signature juxtaposition of materials, patterns and colors balance spontaneity and sophistication with a serious maximalist bent. Valuing texture and materiality, her designs move beyond the realm of simple objects and become a stimulating, sensory experience. 

Rossana Hu

Photo by Massimiliano Sticc.

At A Fork in the Road, Take Both Paths: Patricia Urquiola

A self-proclaimed eclectic, varied and diverse designer, Patricia Urquiola aspires to the highest standard in all her work. While her career path started with a specialization in architecture, it was the early and influential mentorship of FLOS’ Achille Castiglioni that encouraged her to set her sights on the broader world of design.

Kelly Wearstler

Photo by ©Albert Font.

The Creative Craftsmanship of Nani Marquina

Revolutionizing the way rugs were made was only the beginning—Nani Marquina’s sustainable, socially responsible, craftsmen-driven design paradigm is setting the bar for the next generation.

Trendsetters

From established names to emerging designers, these visionary women are pushing the global design discussion forward while setting the tone for what is trending now.

Jette Scheib

Jette Scheib studied product design at the University of the Arts in Berlin, before founding her own studio in 2005. Driven by curiosity and the desire to create something that “adds a new context or dimension to a functional object,” Scheib describes her designs process as “inspired by nature and organic shapes, but also by people and everyday life.”

Photo by ©Sarah Makharine.

Petite Friture Goes Big: A Conversation with Amelie du Passage

Established in 2009 with the intent to make good things happen, Petite Friture’s founder shares her original and enduring approach to design, collaboration and inspiration.

Photo by Jara Varela.

Nina Masó of Santa & Cole

A 2019 interview with the late Santa & Cole co-founder on her design philosophies, the editing process and the future of her forward-thinking company.

Lindsey Adelman

Lindsey Adelman instantly knew industrial design was in her future after witnessing an artisan carve a lifelike french fry out of Styrofoam. Her designs toe the line between sculpture and design, taking inspiration from history, poetry, architecture and modernism. Her work has been shown at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Design Miami and Milan’s Nilufar Gallery.

Justina Blakeney

Justina’s signature design aesthetic of organic textures, pops of color and endless houseplants has launched a modern design movement dubbed “Jungalow” (named after her Los Angeles bungalow filled with plants to a jungle-like state.) Justina Blakeney x Loloi is a collaboration that lives the California Modern lifestyle to the fullest.

Eny Lee Parker

A spatial, lighting and furniture designer, Eny Lee Parker opened her namesake studio in New York in 2017. An accomplished ceramicist, clay remains Parker’s primary medium and her organic designs—both in shape and color palette—are sculptural pieces that float seamlessly between minimalism and maximalism while never losing sight of functionality.

Lindsey Adelman

Lindsey Adelman instantly knew industrial design was in her future after witnessing an artisan carve a lifelike French fry out of Styrofoam. Her designs toe the line between sculpture and design, taking inspiration from history, poetry, architecture and modernism. Her work has been shown at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Design Miami and Milan’s Nilufar Gallery.

Thabisa Mjo on Melding Technology with Traditional Crafts and Building a Design Business in South Africa

As owner and designer of Mash.T, a premier South African design studio, Thabisa Mjo has a different origin story than many new designers.

Justina Blakeney

Photo Courtesy of WantedDesign.

From Leaf to Light: Rosie Li Studio

While paper—preferably the weight of cardstock— remain Li’s dream medium, her Brooklyn-based studio most often works with the traditional materials of stone, brass and glass to create lighting fixtures that seamlessly adapt to and illuminate the interiors in which they’re hung.

Nina Magon for Studio M: Lighting as Exquisite as Jewels

With the first collaboration in Los Angeles-based Studio M’s designer-focused program, Nina Magon shines a light on modern luxury.

Photo Courtesy of WantedDesign.

From Leaf to Light: Rosie Li Studio

Nina Magon for Studio M: Lighting as Exquisite as Jewels

Lucie Koldova: Bohemian Rhapsody in Glass

An interview with the creative director of Czech glass studio Brokis, whose elegant problem-solving, production methods and aesthetic define a movement in modern glassmaking.

Eny Lee Parker

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Omma Collection

by Eli Gutiérrez for LZF

Collaborative and cross-cultural, Eli Gutierrez has worked with design greats like Patricia Urquiola and Philippe Starck on her way to the top. Her Omma collection for LZF emulates fluttering leaves as ingenious materials combine to create a movable—and moving—design.

Vertigo Pendant in Bronze

by Constance Guisset for Petite Friture

Experimenting with stretching ribbons, Constance Guisset imagined the dreamy and wide-brimmed Vertigo Pendant as a young design student. As the fixture grew larger, the ribbons became thinner, light was added, and the now-iconic pendant found its home with Parisian-based studio, Petite Friture.

Lens Collection

by Lucie Koldova for Fabbian

The latest innovation from Lucie Koldova, Lens was born from the idea of capturing light, filtering it, and then releasing it in a renewed way into the environment. The design takes the shape of a lens that concentrates and diverges the sun’s rays.

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