Women in Design

''Offering an alternative, female-focused history, Women in Design is an essential new tome dedicated to the innovators who have shaped the design world'' - ELLE Decoration

Included in BBC Culture''s top ten best fashion and design books of 2019

Featuring more than 100 profiles of pioneering women designers, some who have achieved global recognition such as Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand and Zaha Hadid, it also introduces the fascinating and often untold stories of lesser-known designers, who have similarly shaped and enriched the story of design.

An excerpt from the book:

''This book is, first and foremost, a celebration of some truly remarkable women whose careers in design have been exceptional. They can rightly be called exceptional because, despite the odds stacked against them, the women featured here created significant bodies of work within what was - and to a certain extent still is - the male-dominated field of desi