Susan Kozma-Orlay Explained
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Susan Kozma-Orlay (born Zsuzsa Kozma; 1913–2008) was a Hungarian-Australian mid-century modernist designer.
Biography
Zsuzsa Kozma was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. Her father was the architect and critic .[1] [2]
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).[3]
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,[4] and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert museum in London.[5] [6] [7] [8]
Publications
Notes and References
- Web site: Susan Orlay biography, Design & Art Australia Online . 2023-08-13 . Design & Art Australia Online.
- Web site: 2017-10-04 . Susan Kozma-Orlay . 2023-08-13 . The Other Moderns . en.
- Web site: The Other Moderns: Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy The Dictionary of Sydney . 2023-08-24 . The Dictionary of Sydney.
- Web site: Lush . Rebecca . 2017-08-01 . Museum of Sydney: The Moderns . 2023-08-13 . Curate Your Own Adventure . en.
- Web site: Drinks Trolley, 1938–1939 (designed), Zsuzsa Kozma . August 22, 2023 . Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Web site: The sophisticated Modern home · V&A . 2023-08-13 . Victoria and Albert Museum . en.
- Web site: 2017-07-20 . Sydney's forgotten mid-century modernists . 2023-08-13 . Australian Financial Review . en.
- 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.
