Ana Elena Mallet is a curator specializing in modern and contemporary design. She curated the exhibition "Clara Porset: design and thought" (Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 2020). She was curatorial advisor for the exhibitions “In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury” (Art Institute of Chicago, 2019-2020) and “Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915- 1985” (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017). Along with Lowery Sims, she was the curator of “US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility” (The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, 2017-2018), a project that traveled to Lille, France, in 2019.

In addition, she is a professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. She has published Silla mexicana (Arquine-Secretaría de Cultura, 2017) and La Bauhaus y el México moderno. Van Beuren's design (Arquine-Conaculta, 2014). In 2019 she curated the exhibition “Felix Tissot. The eternal and the modern”, in the Franz Mayer Museum, in Mexico City, of which this book is a part.