Designing Woman: Atelier Zina de Plagny
Disclaimer:For some reason my post didn’t schedule but I had been looking forward to sharing this post all last week. Oh well, better late than never. Read with caution; lots of pretty ahead.
There’s not enough information about women designers in the grand scheme of art and design history. I feel like I accidentally “discover” a new woman designer, who worked during a time when very few women worked in design. Luckily I’ve studied a few, including Charlotte P, CoCo C, and Eva Z but many more that those that I discovered because of blogging, reading or researching something else entirely.
This whole rant came about while I happened to pop over to Surface View. You see, I hadn’t been there for a while and always loved their wall murals. True to form, they were beautiful but my heart skipped a beat when I saw the work of Atelier Zina de Plagny.
So who was Zina? I needed to know…
{image via atelier zina de plagny}
From what I could gather (from her website mostly), Zina was a Russian-born textile designer who established her practice in Paris. She learned the textile industry courtesy of her mentor and husband, Leon Koudine, who after he died, de Plagny took her knowledge and worked for several studios. It was during the post world War 2 era that she launched her own studio, Atelier Zina de Plagny, working throughout the 40’s and 50’s. Again, why didn’t I know who she was?
Thankfully Surface View tapped the atelier’s archives and turned her textile prints into these amazing over scaled wall murals. I’m in a floral mood right now, but that can’t be my Nana’s floral patterns. No, I’m talking big….something like this:
Or perhaps something a touch more abstract would be fun:
{all room sets via surface view}
Gosh, I’m totally daydreaming about the beauty in the studio archives. I want to see more of the textiles from Atelier Zina de Plagny, don’t you?
PS. I’m gonna a mini-blogging break for the long weekend starting Friday. I will see you bright and early Tuesday morning!
Happy Long weekend!
xoxo,
Jessica
























