Greta Magnusson Grossman: Modern Design from Sweden to California

Greta Magnusson Grossman (1906-1999) was a prolific designer working within the male-dominated world of mid-century modern design, whose status and influence has been largely ignored. Grossman was the ultimate polymath: an industrial designer, interior designer, and architect working within the fascinating contexts of Scandinavia and North America. This book gives an overview of Grossman's background, education, and the formative years of her career in Sweden, before describing her move to Los Angeles in 1940. While she is remembered for her work as a product and lighting designer, her work as an interior designer has been almost entirely overlooked. This book catalogs and emphasizes the significance of her contribution to interior design. It positions her contributions in relation to the canon of genres to which she contributed, her discipline, and the emerging canon of women designers who are only now being recognized, while considering her enduring legacy upon the world of design today.

Author: Harriet Harriss, Naomi House
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 7.40h x 9.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781848223578
ISBN10: 1848223579
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Interior Design | General
- Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms | Monographs

About the Author
Harriet Harriss is the Head of Research Programmes at the Royal College of Art's School of Architecture, London. She is the recipient of numerous awards and her published books include A Gendered Profession: The Question of Representation in Space Making (ed.) and Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education and the British Tradition (ed.). Naomi House is a designer, educator, and writer who has taught at the Royal College of Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University and Associate Lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts. Her previous publications include the Fundamentals of Interior Architecture and Interiority Complex in a Gendered Profession.