Dora Vanette

Contributing Editor

Dora Vanette is a design historian and writer based in New York. She is a lecturer at Parsons The New School for Design where she teaches courses on design history and critical reading and writing. Her research and writing has focused on design education and modernist design in the Eastern Bloc. Her writing has appeared in several publications including Dwell and Metropolis.

Nuage bookcase by Charlotte Perriand

Forget Le Corbusier. Meet Charlotte Perriand.

Charlotte Perriand was the creative force behind some of Le Corbusier’s best-known designs. Her story sheds light on …

No Great Women Artists: A Lesson To Be Learned

No Great Women Artists: A Lesson to Be Learned

In recent history, a growing acknowledgement of gender disparity in the workplace has led to more conversations about…

Gender History Pink Blue

Child’s Play: Pink and Blue Gender History

One of the many recent projects that have set out to explore the issue of gender and its relation to childhood is Jeo…

Spatial Reasoning: Gender, History and Minimalist Spaces

Spatial Reasoning: Gender, History and Minimalist Spaces

Penny Sparke begins her book on the relationship between gender politics and design, As Long as It’s Pink, by recount…