Women Designing Lives of Their Own

To elevate the decorative arts in the early 20th century, women were encouraged to participate in the creation of beautiful and useful objects, as they had for centuries. An interview with Pat Kirkham, Professor in the history of design, decorative arts and culture at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture, New York. She has written and edited a number of books, including Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000 (MIT Press, 1998) and Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century (Laurence King Publishers, 2011).

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Women Designing Lives of Their Own is an episode from Spoken Editions.

This episode is 08:21 long.

This episode was published on Aug 26, 2013.

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