Susan Kozma-Orlay (born Zsuzsa Kozma; 1913–2008) was a Hungarian-Australian mid-century modernist designer.

Biography

Zsuzsa Kozma was born in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

, Hungary in 1913. Her father was the architect and critic . She attended the

Kunstgewerbeschule A Kunstgewerbeschule (English: ''School of Arts and Crafts'' or S''chool of Applied Arts'') was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century. The term Werkkunstschule was also used for the ...

(School of Applied Arts) in both

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and

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, where she studied furniture design and graphic design. She then worked in her father's Vienna architecture studio until his activity was curtailed by anti-Jewish restrictions. After the war, in the late 1940s, she married and emigrated to Australia (where she Anglicised her name to Susan Orlay). Her career in Australia spanned textile design, illustration, store displays and graphics for the department store David Jones, furniture design, and interior design. Her work was exhibited in the exhibition ''The Moderns: European Designers in Sydney'' at the

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in 2017, and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert museum in London.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kozma-Orlay, Susan 1913 births 2008 deaths People from Budapest State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart alumni University of Applied Arts Vienna alumni Australian people of Hungarian descent Australian industrial designers Australian furniture designers Australian women graphic designers Australian women architects Hungarian industrial designers Hungarian furniture designers Hungarian graphic designers Hungarian women architects Hungarian women graphic designers Hungarian-Australian culture History of furniture