Following the First World War female designers increasingly moved away from those areas of artistic activity traditionally deemed female work. Activities considered to be unwomanly included goldsmithery and artistic working generally in metals. These occupations, and here as a result of guild practices and regulations, had for a long time been strictly male preserves. As a result of the changes in assumptions and social convictions hastened by the process of emancipation particularly regarding girls education such restrictions started to loosen. During the inter-war years female designers of metal works started to enter producion plants armed with diplomas from artistic institutions, thanks to which design started to become for them their profession and not merely a life passion. The harbinger of their industrial activities was to be the increase in the design brief given to women. However, in the 1930s to have female decorative metal work designers was still a novelty, with their numbers being small. Amongst these rarities of the day one may enumerate exceptionally talented female designers such as Christa Ehrlich, Sylvia Stave and Julia Keilowa.

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