Browsing by Author "Lees-Maffei, Grace"

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    • Espresso by Design : The Creation of the Italian Coffee Machine 

      Morris, Jonathan (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013-11)
      A history of the italian espresso machine exploring the ways in which technical innovations in coffee brewing, environmental function within the bar setting, and messages conveyed through aesthetic styling have impacted ...

    • Fluid Typography : Construction, Metamorphosis and Revelation 

      Brownie, Barbara (Berg Publishers, 2011)

    • From National Histories of Advice Discourse to a "Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue" 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (2015-03-01)
      Contribution to a Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) series on the British Association of American Studies (BAAS) website U.S. Studies Online.

    • From Service to Self-Service: Advice Literature as Design Discourse, 1920–1970 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (2001-09-01)
      This article examines examples of advice literature published in Britain for what they indicate about changes in the material culture of home entertaining from 1920 to 1970. Advice writing offers ideal models of design ...

    • A Gathering of Flowers : On Design Anthologies 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace; Huppatz, Daniel J. (2017-07-04)
      Over the past decade, anthologies – also called ‘readers’ – of design history and theory have proliferated across publishers’ catalogues. These books perform important pedagogical functions: they define fields and establish ...

    • General Introduction 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Berg Publishers, 2010-03-01)
      The General Introduction to The Design History Reader introduces design history, and The Design History Reader, considers the communication of design in textual form, surveys the book's structure and alternative reading ...

    • Getting a Handle on It: Thomas Lamb, Mass Production, and Touch in Design History 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Penn State University Press, 2023-06-01)
      This chapter proceeds from the premise that the hands which operated the machinery of capitalism were not merely a unit by which the power needed to perform the labor required was calculated but, rather, they were sentient ...

    • Gillian Naylor 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016-01-01)

    • Gottfried Semper 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Routledge, 1997)
      This Encyclopaedia of Interior Design features 500 + items complete with illustrations. It details an historical account of decoration and design from ancient times to contemporary movements. The descriptions about individuals ...

    • Hands at home? Textures, tactility and touch in interior design 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Manchester University Press, 2023-09-30)
      This chapter explores the mutually constitutive relationships between touch and interior design for the home, in an analysis attentive to modernisms and mediation. The phrase ‘home comforts’ indicates that the home is not ...

    • Hospitality and Home: British and American Cultures of Entertaining 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020-11-26)
      The eighty years from 1920 to 2000 saw tremendous changes in the ways that hospitality was practiced in people’s homes. These transformations were brought about by broader cultural shifts - acting in different ways within ...

    • Iconic Designs : 50 Stories about 50 Things 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace; History; School of Humanities; School of Creative Arts; Art and Design; Theorising Visual Art and Design (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020-01-23)
      Iconic Designs is a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to fifty classic 'things' – designs that we find in the city, in our homes and offices, on page and screen, and in our everyday lives. In her introduction, ...

    • Iconic Designs : 50 Stories about 50 Things 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; School of Creative Arts; Theorising Visual Art and Design; Art and Design (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014-09)
      A surprising range of people and things are today described as ‘iconic’. By no means reserved for design, this increasingly ubiquitous and relatively long-standing buzz-word seems to meet a need for praising and – ironically ...

    • Introduction - Writing design : words, myths, practices 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (2010-12-01)
      The six articles presented in this fourth volume of Working Papers on Design (WPoD) are the result of a long process of collaboration. They were initially offered as abstracts in response to a call for papers published in ...

    • Introduction: Interrogating Iconic Design 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014-09-01)
      This introduction begins with the roots of iconicity and examines identifying characteristics shared by religious icons and design icons alike as functions of reception, representativeness, recognition and reverence. It ...

    • Introduction: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Berghahn Books, 2016-06)
      This introduction begins by examining how the dominant national paradigm has been challenged by the global as an academic, and mainstream, preoccupation, and then argues for the reconceptualization of the national within ...

    • Introduction: Professionalization as a Focus in Interior Design History 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (2008-03-01)
      In the industrialized West, the design of the interior has been conceptualized as a domestic and amateur phenomenon, and the domestic interior has been conceptualized as a feminine realm. This introductory article aims to ...

    • Introduction: The History of Italian Design 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013-11-21)
      This general introduction is divided into three sections. It begins with a critical reflection on the place of national histories in an increasingly globalised design environment, highlighting the key methodological issues ...

    • Introduction: Writing Design 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Berg Publishers, 2012-01-01)
      This introduction establishes ‘writing design’ as a polyvalent and useful term for thinking about how text is used in design criticism, design history and design practice; in so doing, it provides bibliographic pointers ...

    • It's Personal : Subjectivity in Design History 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace; Fallan, Kjetil; School of Creative Arts; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; Art and Design; Theorising Visual Art and Design (2015-04-21)
      Postmodern theory might have finally killed off the utopian ideal of history as an objective science, but it has arguably left a vacuum, with no comprehensive debate on the role of subjectivity in history writing and its ...