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""Living Design: The Writings of Clara Porset is a very welcome contribution to our understanding of Porset's innovative studio and the histories of design, design education, and everyday life in Mexico and the greater Americas. A large array of illustrations will make this an attractive volume to scholars and design enthusiasts. The contextualizing essays by Zoë Ryan and Valentina Sarmiento Cruz, Randal Sheppard, and Ana Elena Mallet, are well-written and thoroughly researched, and the high quality of Natalie Espinosa's translations grants greater access to Porset's writerly voice and her writing as a form of thinking."" -- ""George F. Flaherty, University of Texas at Austin"" ""The value of this collection of Clara Porset's writings spanning four decades cannot be overstated. Living Design demonstrates Porset's significant intellectual and social contributions in Cuba, Mexico, and beyond, and makes a compelling case for her enduring commitment to theorizing and promoting interior design at the intersection of artisanal and industrial fabrication. This volume constitutes an important step toward addressing the historical impacts of women designers and critics whose legacies have been overlooked for far too long.""-- ""Jennifer Josten, University of Pittsburgh""

"""Living Design: The Writings of Clara Porset is a very welcome contribution to our understanding of Porset's innovative studio and the histories of design, design education, and everyday life in Mexico and the greater Americas. A large array of illustrations will make this an attractive volume to scholars and design enthusiasts. The contextualizing essays by Zo� Ryan and Valentina Sarmiento Cruz, Randal Sheppard, and Ana Elena Mallet, are well-written and thoroughly researched, and the high quality of Natalie Espinosa's translations grants greater access to Porset's writerly voice and her writing as a form of thinking."" -- ""George F. Flaherty, University of Texas at Austin"" ""The value of this collection of Clara Porset's writings spanning four decades cannot be overstated. Living Design demonstrates Porset's significant intellectual and social contributions in Cuba, Mexico, and beyond, and makes a compelling case for her enduring commitment to theorizing and promoting interior design at the intersection of artisanal and industrial fabrication. This volume constitutes an important step toward addressing the historical impacts of women designers and critics whose legacies have been overlooked for far too long.""-- ""Jennifer Josten, University of Pittsburgh"""

""A new publication, Living Design: The Writings of Clara Porset containing her essays, which she extensively published throughout her career, sheds light on her life and thinking.-- ""Daniella on Design"" ""Living Design: The Writings of Clara Porset is a very welcome contribution to our understanding of Porset's innovative studio and the histories of design, design education, and everyday life in Mexico and the greater Americas. A large array of illustrations will make this an attractive volume to scholars and design enthusiasts. The contextualizing essays by Zoë Ryan and Valentina Sarmiento Cruz, Randal Sheppard, and Ana Elena Mallet, are well-written and thoroughly researched, and the high quality of Natalie Espinosa's translations grants greater access to Porset's writerly voice and her writing as a form of thinking."" -- ""George F. Flaherty, University of Texas at Austin"" ""The value of this collection of Clara Porset's writings spanning four decades cannot be overstated. Living Design demonstrates Porset's significant intellectual and social contributions in Cuba, Mexico, and beyond, and makes a compelling case for her enduring commitment to theorizing and promoting interior design at the intersection of artisanal and industrial fabrication. This volume constitutes an important step toward addressing the historical impacts of women designers and critics whose legacies have been overlooked for far too long.""-- ""Jennifer Josten, University of Pittsburgh""

""Living Design: The Writings of Clara Porset is a very welcome contribution to our understanding of Porset's innovative studio and the histories of design, design education, and everyday life in Mexico and the greater Americas. A large array of illustrations will make this an attractive volume to scholars and design enthusiasts. The contextualizing essays by Zo� Ryan and Valentina Sarmiento Cruz, Randal Sheppard, and Ana Elena Mallet, are well-written and thoroughly researched, and the high quality of Natalie Espinosa's translations grants greater access to Porset's writerly voice and her writing as a form of thinking."" -- ""George F. Flaherty, University of Texas at Austin"" ""The value of this collection of Clara Porset's writings spanning four decades cannot be overstated. Living Design demonstrates Porset's significant intellectual and social contributions in Cuba, Mexico, and beyond, and makes a compelling case for her enduring commitment to theorizing and promoting interior design at the intersection of artisanal and industrial fabrication. This volume constitutes an important step toward addressing the historical impacts of women designers and critics whose legacies have been overlooked for far too long.""-- ""Jennifer Josten, University of Pittsburgh""

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Clara Porset (1895-1981) was born in Cuba, studied in the United States and France, and primarily lived and worked in Mexico from 1935. Her design of a butaque chair is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and she co-founded the Industrial Design Department in the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Zoë Ryan is a curator and Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Valentina Sarmiento Cruz is an independent writer, researcher, interpreter, and translator based in Mexico City.

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