Dressing table (archive photograph)

Kató Lukáts (1900–1990), an applied artist, started her career between the two World Wars. She married applied artist Gyula Kaesz (1897–1967) in 1925. Parts of their legacies were acquired by the Archives of the Museum of Applied Arts – hundreds of drawings, prints, sketches, drafts, and study collections. The sets of designs, the typographical and advertisement works were in part donated by peers – like textile designer Éva Szabó, architect Frigyes Gabriel, and by Kató Lukáts herself. After the death of her the heirs also donated the texts and manuscripts of lectures, and extensive personal and official correspondence (from 1917 until 1987), besides drawings and plans to the museum.