Tables, Spoons & Chairs: A New Book Honors the Best Women Designers of the Century

You likely have heard of the sleekly designed Eames lounge chair. Or at least seen it in photos, on TV shows, in museums. The name identified with that chair is a man: Charles Eames. But Charles had an artist wife, Ray, who was equally responsible for the chair's iconic silhouette and materials but has never gotten full credit for her substantial role in designing products from the couple's studio called Eames House. And as a new book makes clear, she's not the only female product designer who has been overlooked.

The book focuses on functional objects that can be found in the home.

Released by Phaidon, Woman Made: Great Women Designers collects work from more than 200 designers hailing from over 50 countries around the world. The woman behind the project is Jane Hall, an architect with the design studio Assemble. She has written an A to Z-style book charting the work of both iconic and unknown women product designers over the last century.