Greta Magnusson-Grossman Greta Magnusson-Grossman Greta Magnusson-Grossman (July 21, 1906 – August 1999) was a Swedish furniture designer, interior designer, and architect. She was one of the few female designers to gain prominence during the mid-20th century architectural scene in Los Angeles. Her early exposure to European Modernism deeply influenced her later architectural work, seen as a synthesis of European ideals and the culture and lifestyle of Southern California. Magnusson-Grossman was born Greta Magnusson on July 21, 1906 in Helsingborg, Sweden. Magnusson descended from a family of Swedish cabinetmakers, and was a woodworking apprentice at furniture manufacturer, Kärnans in Helsingborg after she graduated
Greta Rana Greta Rana Greta Rana (born 1943), MBE (awarded Order of the British Empire in 2005 ) is an author and poet born in Yorkshire, U.K. She has been living in Nepal for over 40 years. Working in mountain areas in Nepal during her first two decades in the country led her to accept the task of establishing a publishing and PR unit for the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), a regional organisation which operates at the interface of research and development in the eight countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas in 1989. She continued to build on this unit,