Valerija Ema Cukermanienė

Interior designer

Elina Amann, last edited on 12.10.2022

Name:

Valerija Ema Cukermanienė

Life Dates:

1935 – 2018

Country:

Employers:

Furniture design office in Vilnius (1960-1990)

Vilnius furniture combine (1994-1995)

Skraja furniture combine (1998-1999)

Field of expertise:

Interior design

Education:

Short Biography and Work

Valerija Ema Cukermanienė was born in Kaunas on 31 October 1935. In 1960 she graduated from Kaunas Polytechnic Institute and started working in a furniture design office in Vilnius. Later she started working in a furniture combine in Vilnius before working for a company in Skraja.

The Lithuanian furniture designer was responsible for the interiors of important office buildings of the Lithuanian SSR. This includes the furnishing of the LSSR Council of Ministers in 1968 and the LSSR State Plan Committee in 1972.

She also designed furniture for the Villon Hotel (1990) and cultural institutions, including the Lithuanian Academic Drama Theatre (1981) and the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra (1992). Other furniture projects by Cukermanienė can be found in restaurants, as well as mass-produced pieces of home furniture. She has designed over 50 collections of living room, bedroom and hallway furniture.
The minimalist style of her work embodies the change in production requirements under the political and economic circumstances of the Soviet regime. Despite this, her designs and those of other well-known Lithuanian designers are part of the European modernist traditions.

Cukermanienė’s designs were exhibited in many countries in Europe and in the USSR. She participated in several furniture art competitions in Lithuania and the Soviet Union and won numerous prizes.

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