Susan Kozma-Orlay | |
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Born | 1913 Hungary |
Died | 2008 (aged 94–95) Australia |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Architect, designer, furniture designer |
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Susan Kozma-Orlay (born Zsuzsa Kozma; 1913–2008) was a Hungarian–Australian mid-century modernist designer.
Zsuzsa Kozma was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. Her father was the architect and critic Lajos Kozma .[1][2]
She attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in both Stuttgart and Vienna, where she studied furniture design and graphic design.[1][2] 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).[1][3]
Her career in Australia spanned textile design, illustration, store displays and graphics for the department store David Jones, furniture design, and interior design.[3]
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]