Susan Orlay b. 1913

Also known as Zsuzsa Kozma, Zsuzsa Kozma-Orlay
  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Orlay "trained in furniture design and graphic arts at the Schools of Applied Art in Budapest, Stuttgart and Vienna". While studying, she worked as a designer in the offices of her father the architect Lajoz Kozma. Immigrating to Australia in the late 1940s, she continued her design career as Susan Orlay. Furniture, interiors, textiles and graphic design by Orlay are known.
Tags: modernism, interior design, furniture design, Graphic design, Textile design

Full career summary is illustrated and described in Rebecca Hawcroft, “From the Margins to the Mainstream” in R. Hawcroft, Ed., The Other Moderns, UNSW Press, 2017, pp.165-190.

Writers:

Michael Bogle
Date written:
2017
Last updated:
2017