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Hungarian–Australian architect and designer (1913–2008)
Susan Kozma-Orlay
Kozma-Orlay, c. 1930s
Born1913
Hungary
Died2008 (aged 94–95)
Australia
Alma mater
OccupationArchitect, designer, furniture designer
Parent(s)
  • Lajos Kozma Edit this on Wikidata
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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 Lajos Kozma [hu].

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 and Albert museum in London.

Publications

References

  1. "Orlay, Susan (1913–)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Susan Orlay biography, Design & Art Australia Online". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Susan Kozma-Orlay". The Other Moderns. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  4. ^ "The Other Moderns: Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy | The Dictionary of Sydney". The Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  5. "About". Bartex. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
  6. Lush, Rebecca (1 August 2017). "Museum of Sydney: The Moderns". Museum of Sydney via Curate Your Own Adventure. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  7. "Drinks Trolley, 1938–1939 (designed), Zsuzsa Kozma". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  8. "The sophisticated Modern home · V&A". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  9. "Sydney's forgotten mid-century modernists". Australian Financial Review. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  10. 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". The Other Moderns: Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy, Rebecca Hawcroft, editor. UNSW Press.
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