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Download or read book Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000 written by . This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates the contribution that female designers made to American culture over the last century in such fields as ceramics, textiles, graphics, furniture, interiors, metalwork, fashion and jewelry. It includes designers from the arts and crafts and modernist movements, Native American and African American cultures, the post-World War II era, craft and “ethnic” revivals in the 1970s and 1980s, and the world of today, including Eva Zeisel, Maria Martinez, Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Edith Head, Clare McCardell, Bonnie Cashin, Elsa Peretti, and April Greiman, as well as less well-known designers.