{"id":9607,"date":"2022-04-25T13:17:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T07:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funeral.lk\/listing\/kala-suri-barbara-sansoni\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T13:17:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T07:47:17","slug":"kala-suri-barbara-sansoni","status":"publish","type":"rtcl_listing","link":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/listing\/kala-suri-barbara-sansoni\/","title":{"rendered":"KALA SURI BARBARA SANSONI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kala Suri\u00a0 Barbara Sansoni\u00a0(22 April 1928 \u2013 23 April 2022) was a Sri Lankan veteran designer, who \u00a0founded the\u00a0Barefoot\u00a0textile company in the 1950\u2019s \u00a0and \u00a0served as the chairperson and chief designer of Barefoot Pvt. Ltd for several years.[1]<br \/>\nIn 1970, she won the J. D. Rockefeller Travel Award and also the Zonta Woman of Achievement from the Zonta Club of Colombo in 1987. Ms Sansoni also won the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in gold category in 1997 from the Women&#8217;s Chamber of Industry and Commerce.<br \/>\nShe was conferred with a\u00a0Kala Suri\u00a0from the\u00a0Government of Sri Lanka\u00a0in 2005 during the\u00a0Sri Lankan national honours\u00a0in recognition for her special contributions.\u00a0She received a Geoffrey Bawa Special Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 for her contributions to art and architecture.<br \/>\nIn 2016, she was conferred with an Honarary Doctor of Philosophy.<br \/>\nMs Sansoni died on 23 April 2022, about an hour after her 94th birthday.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-9607","rtcl_listing","type-rtcl_listing","status-publish","hentry","rtcl_category-ob-na","rtcl_location-western-province","listing-item","rtcl-listing-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/9607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rtcl_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rtcl_listing\/9607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funerals.lk\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}