“¿Qué es diseño?” asked Clara Porset in 1949. What is design?1

Not because she didn’t know. Far from it. Over the course of the preceding two decades Clara Porset had ably demonstrated her considered, critical and responsive understandings of design; understandings that saw her develop into one of the most important, interesting and informative furniture designers in Mexico, understandings that saw her develop into one of the more important, interesting and informative protagonists in the development of industrial design in Mexico.

Before she slipped from view and into the (relative) anonymity she finds herself today.

Before the more pertinent question became, ¿quién es Clara Porset?

Clara Porset (1895 - 1981) (photo commons.wikimedia.org CC BY-SA 4.0, courtesy Archivo Clara Porset Dumas)