Susan Kozma-Orlay
Hungarian–Australian architect and designer (1913–2008)
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Susan Kozma-Orlay (born Zsuzsa Kozma; 1913–2008) was a Hungarian-Australian mid-century modernist designer.[1]
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Susan Kozma-Orlay | |
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Kozma-Orlay, c. 1930s | |
| Born | 1913 Hungary |
| Died | 2008 (aged 94–95) Australia |
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| Occupation | Architect, designer, furniture designer |
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Biography
Zsuzsa Kozma was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. Her father was the architect and critic Kozma Lajos.[2][3]
She attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in both Stuttgart and Vienna, where she studied furniture design and graphic design.[2][3] 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).[2][4]
Her career in Australia spanned textile design, illustration, store displays and graphics for the department store David Jones, furniture design, and interior design.[4][5]
Her work was exhibited in the exhibition The Moderns: European Designers in Sydney at the Museum of Sydney in 2017,[6] and is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.[7][8][9][10]
Publications
- Hawcroft, Rebecca (2017). "From the Margins to the Mainstream". The Other Moderns: Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. pp. 165–190. ISBN 978-1742235561.
- Shapira, Elana (2021). Designing Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-1350172296.