Jay Sae Jung Oh and Ray Eames Featured in Women in Design Exhibition in Montreal

Two Cranbrook Academy of Art alumnae are featured in Parall(elles): A History of Women in Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Jay Sae Jung Oh’s (MFA 3D Design 2011) Savage Chair, on loan from Cranbrook Art Museum, and Ray and Charles Eames’ LCW (Low-Chair-Wood) Chair are both included with approximately 250 pieces that span the mid-19th century to the present.

Interior Design notes that Jung Oh’s, “flamboyant chair carries biomorphic accents that seem both inviting and alarming at once, materializing the urgency of environmental consciousness through the experience of finding comfort in a seat.”

In the same article, Interior Design also touches on how women designers have been overshadowed by their male partners, as in the case of Ray Eames (Design 1940-41). Charles and Ray Eames conceptualized and produced most of their work together but works were often solely credited to Charles. For example at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. New Furniture Design by Charles Eames (1946) where Ray is not mentioned in the original press release, or Charles Eames, 1907-1978 (1978), where the checklist credits all objects including their bent plywood splint and folding frame solely to Charles.

Parall(elles): A History of Women in Design is on view through May 28, 2023.

 

Learn more:

Parall(elles): A History of Women in Design – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Spotlights Women in Design – Interior Design

Learn more about 3D Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art