of their design efforts. In 1932, Reich was asked by van der Rohe to teach at the Bauhaus and direct the interior design workshop. Her tenure was short-lived as the Bauhaus was closed in 1933 by the Nazis, who referred to it an “oriental palace” and “synagogue” filled with “Bolshevists” and “cultural Marxists” dedicated to degenerate art. After the Second World War, she briefly taught at the Universität der Künste in Berlin but was forced to resign due to ill health. She died two years later in 1947 in Berlin. There are streets named after Lilly Reich in the German cities of Munich, Hildesheim, and Ingolstadt. Career Reich started her career as a designer of textiles and women's clothes. This experience was to be formative for her – giving her a particular interest in contrasting textures and materials, as well as specific skills with regard to the use of textiles in furniture. She worked in the studio of Josef Hoffmann in Vienna from 1908. Hoffmann was a celebrated modernist designer, responsible for designs such as the Kubus chair (1918), Cabinet (circa 1915), Koller (1911), and Broncia (1912) chairs. In 1914, Reich converted her studio to a dressmaker's shop and maintained it through the duration of World War I. In 1912, two seminal events helped establish her reputation as an influential designer and exhibition organizer. First, she designed well-received interiors for a worker's apartment and two stores for the Lyzeum-Klub exhibition Die Frau in Haus und Beruf (Woman at Home and at Work). That same year, she was elected to membership in the German Werkbund, an organization founded in 1907 that aimed to ally art and industry as a means to improve German-made products and designs. The Werkbund sponsored lectures for shopkeepers and consumers as well as sought the assistance of museums to influence public taste through exhibitions. On 25 October 1920, Reich was formally recognized by her peers when she was named to the Board of Directors of Deutsche Werkbund. She was the first woman to be appointed to the Werkbund's governing board. It was her responsibility to plan and curate design exhibits hosted by the Werkbund and intended to promote German designers both in Germany and abroad. In 1921–22, Reich organized and prepared two large exhibitions to be shown at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey. The first exhibition, entitled "The Applied Arts," consisted entirely of women's clothing