Susan Kozma-Orlay
Susan Kozma-Orlay (born Zsuzsa Kozma; 1913–2008) was a Hungarian-Australian mid-century modernist designer.
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Susan Kozma-Orlay
- Born
- 1913 · Hungary.
- Died
- 2008 · Australia.
- Nationality
- Hungary · Australia
- Occupation
- architect · designer
- Education
- Kunstgewerbeschule
- Languages
- English · German
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Susan Kozma-Orlay (born Zsuzsa Kozma; 1913–2008) was a Hungarian-Australian mid-century modernist designer.
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Zsuzsa Kozma was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. Her father was the architect and critic Kozma Lajos. She attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in both Stuttgart and Vienna, where she studied furniture design and graphic design. 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). Her career in Australia spanned textile design, illustration, store displays and graphics for the department store David Jones, furniture design, and interior design. Her work was exhibited in the exhibition The Moderns: European Designers in Sydney at the Museum of Sydney in 2017, and is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
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- 1.Orlay, Susan (1913–). National Library of Australia.
- 2.Susan Orlay biography, Design & Art Australia Online. Design & Art Australia Online.
- 3.Susan Kozma-Orlay. The Other Moderns. 4 October 2017.
- 4.The Other Moderns: Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy The Dictionary of Sydney. Dictionary of Sydney.
- 5.About. Bartex.
- 6.Lush, Rebecca. Museum of Sydney: The Moderns. Museum of Sydney via Curate Your Own Adventure. 1 August 2017.
- 7.Drinks Trolley, 1938–1939 (designed), Zsuzsa Kozma. Victoria & Albert Museum.
- 8.The sophisticated Modern home · V&A. Victoria & Albert Museum.
- 9.Sydney's forgotten mid-century modernists. Australian Financial Review. 20 July 2017.
- 10.Bogle, Michael. 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. 2017-01-01.
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