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“While women gained some notoriety as designers through the packaging of their identities alongside the advertisement of their products, their invisibility in the wider history of design remains a familiar tale of exclusion,” Dr. Jane Hall writes in the introduction of her new book, Woman Made. Hall, who also wrote Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women, aims to enrich this history with a directory of more than 200 female designers from 50 countries. Arranged alphabetically, Woman Made starts with Aino Aalto, who cofounded the Finnish interior design firm Artek in 1935 and developed the Bölgeblick line of ribbed glassware. It ends with Sandrine Ébène de Zorzi, who creates wood furniture from her workshop in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In between is an inspiring lineup of creators whose role in redefining our spaces demands attention. – A.S.

Woman Made by Dr. Jane Hall, $75 in bookstores and online Sept. 29 (phaidon.com).

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