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FROM HER: FURNITURE BY WOMEN

Focus


It was not until the twentieth century that women in Austria gradually gained access to higher artistic and technical studies, opening up opportunities for independent employment as architects, craftswomen and designers.

2024/06/18 - 2025/01/05
Vienna Furniture Museum
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
included in museum admission

FROM HER: FURNITURE BY WOMEN

It was not until the twentieth century that women in Austria gradually gained access to higher artistic and technical studies, opening up opportunities for independent employment as architects, craftswomen and designers.

On the gallery of the Vienna Furniture Museum you can see exhibits by female designers from the interwar period to the present day.

The works are by:

  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897 - 2000)
  • Anna-Lülja Praun (1906 - 2004)
  • Eva Riedl (1931 - 1996)
  • Heidemarie Leitner (*1944)
  • Luisa Wammes (*1960)
  • Ursula Klingan (*1963)
  • Tina Lehner (*1968)
  • Nin Prantner (*1971)
  • POLKA Designstudio (Marie Rahm, *1975 und Monica Singer, *1975)
  • Kathrina Dankl (*1981) und Lisa Elena Hampel-Plasser (*1981)
  • Lisa Stolz (*1988)
  • Dóra Medveczky (*1990)

Supporting program

FOR HER: ROOMS FOR WOMEN

Focus


Even in imperial times, women at court knew how to assert their personal preferences and set the style. At the same time, women's interior design reflected and reinforced, but also challenged, their social roles.

2024/06/18 - 2025/01/05
Vienna Furniture Museum
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
included in museum admission

"Housewife, artist, tomboy" – Hedy Lamarr 110

Special Exhibition


Hedy Lamarr was an exceptional personality: multi-faceted, clever, creative, the most beautiful woman in the world. A Hollywood icon endowed with an extraordinary inventive spirit. Glamor and partying weren't her cup of tea. She preferred to stay at home.

2024/11/08 - 2025/03/02
Vienna Furniture Museum
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
included in museum admission