This exhibition shone a light on the varied career of the trailblazing and globe-trotting designer and businesswoman.

Born in 1930s New York to Jamaican parents, Jacqueline Ayer grew up with Milton Glaser in the first interracial housing in the US. She illustrated for Vogue and worked alongside Andy Warhol before moving to Thailand in the 1950s.

Ayer's picture books were a remarkable addition to 1960s America. Documenting her family’s life around the back lanes of Bangkok, they were the first books published in the US to depict Asian culture authentically.

She also founded fashion company Design Thai, creating textiles and garments without colonial overtones. Her reference book Oriental Fashion is still used by London College of Fashion today.

Coincided with the re-issue of The Paper-Flower Tree and Nu Dang and his Kite by Enchanted Lion Books.