CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/25/2018

Women's History in 'Modern Women'

Swedish ex-pat Greta von Nessen's 1951 Anywhere Lamp is reproduced from Modern Women, MoMA's monumental survey of women artists and designers from the late 1800s to present. Von Nessen's reputation "remains subsumed by that of her husband, Walter, a German émigré who established an innovative architectural lighting company in the late 1920s," essayist Juliet Kinchin writes. "Yet it was Greta who single-handedly revived and developed Nessen Studio in New York after World War II, and her ingenious Anywhere design remains the firm's best-known product." Bam!