![]() ![]() ![]() Tbilisi-based design duo Nata Janberidze and Keti Toloraia refer to their joint practice as a “confluence of energies”. Rooms Studio designers Keti Toloraia (left) and Nata Janberidze with (from left) their Sculptural Chair I, Half Moon Coffee Table II and Sculptural Chair III © Adrianna Glaviano “I think they are proof for the younger generation of women that they too can do this.” “It’s about being able to visualise a path into design,” says Egg co-founder Crystal Ellis of creating new platforms that might be a source of inspiration. In New York, female design trio Egg Collective have been hosting Designing Women exhibitions at their SoHo showroom since 2017. In Rotterdam, designer Sabine Marcelis was chosen by skincare brand La Prairie to be the mentor of its latest art initiative: a collective of five female graduates who will be realising new Bauhaus-inspired works to be shown in June at Art Basel. Meanwhile, the 2021 Phaidon publication Woman Made by Jane Hall (a founding member of the design and architecture collective Assemble) “flips the script on what historically is a patriarchal industry”, according to Laurent Claquin, president of Kering Americas, which backed the project and will now launch the Women In Motion Design Scholarship – an award of up to $25,000 to support a woman undergraduate student in the US.Īt the same time, a new clutch of creatives is shaking up the design world. This year, Carpenters Workshop Gallery will champion the cause in New York in its exhibition The Female Voice in Modern Design: 1950-2000 (20 April to 3 July). Part of this shift can be attributed to the focus on previously overlooked female designers who have received posthumous retrospectives – the Charlotte Perriand exhibitions at Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2019 and at London’s Design Museum in 2021 being a primary example. Sabine Marcelis in her Rotterdam studio with a prototype custom light installation for the new Galeries Lafayette in Annecy, France © Chris Brooks Now, I get an extra 200 emails a month from people asking for advice on who they should commission to design a new furniture collection, or who they should have on their panel discussion to make sure it is representative. “They backed up how I felt about visiting design festivals in London and Milan and seeing exactly the same white men on every panel event. “We founded Design Can based on those Design Council statistics,” says London-based design PR director Sabine Zetteler of the diversity and inclusion campaign she launched in 2019 alongside advocates such as Priya Khanchandani, head of curatorial at the Design Museum, and multidisciplinary artist Yinka Ilori. New thinking is helping to balance the scales. ![]()
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