This you should know.
Ask someone to name a Nordic designer and you’ll hear Aalto, Jacobsen, Wegner, Franck. Ask for a woman and it usually goes quiet.
The women were there all along. They decorated Arabia’s tableware, ran the design office at Artek, drew lamps and furniture for Stockmann and made glass at Orrefors. Few of them got a monograph. Some don’t even have a correct birth year in the reference books.
101 Designers collects their stories, one profile at a time, from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Each designer is filed under the country she was born in.
Toward a book
This site is the working draft of a book about 101 Nordic women designers. The research is ongoing, so profiles get corrected and expanded as new material turns up.
Know something we don’t? A photo, a letter, a maker’s mark, a family story? Get in touch.
101 Designers is written by Jonas Forth, who works with Nordic design, retail and publishing in Finland.