Finding Ella Briggs

Description

Ella Briggs (1880-1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose infuence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Seccessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing fort he masses in Austria, was jailed as a suspected spy in Mussolini’s Italy, and thrived in Weimar Germany before suffering persecution under the Nazis. Fleeing to London, she contributed to England’s postwar reconstruction. Yet despite a long and prolific career, her name is largely forgotten today.

Finding Ella Briggs restores Briggs to her rightful place in the history of modernist design.