Susan Kozma-Orlay

Susan Kozma-Orlay was a Hungarian-Australian mid-century modernist designer.

Biography

Zsuzsa Kozma was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. Her father was the architect and critic Kozma Lajos.
She attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in both Stuttgart and Vienna, 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.
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 Museum of Sydney in 2017, and is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.