Lilly Reich

German designer and architect, 1885 to 1947, born and based in Berlin. She joined the Deutscher Werkbund in 1912 and on 25 October 1920 became the first woman on its governing board, organising exhibitions that carried German design abroad. From 1925 until Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 1937 emigration she was his closest professional partner, credited with shaping the interiors and furniture of the Barcelona Pavilion (1929) and Villa Tugendhat (1930) alongside him. In 1932 she took over the Bauhaus fitting out workshop as its second female Master, teaching interior and furniture design until the school's 1933 closure. Her authorship went largely uncredited in her lifetime and for decades after; MoMA's 1996 exhibition Lilly Reich: Designer and Architect, and research since, has restored her name to work long attributed to Mies alone.