Grace Lees-Maffei

Professor of Design History, University of Hertfordshire

Research Expertise

Design History
Cultural History
Material Culture
Heritage
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Cultural Studies
Architecture
Education
History
Gender Studies
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Sociology and Political Science
Anthropology
Literature and Literary Theory
Geography, Planning and Development
Communication
Urban Studies

Publications

The Production-Consumption-Mediation Paradigm
Journal of Design History
2009
Introduction: Professionalization as a Focus in Interior Design History
Journal of Design History
2008
The Design History Reader by Grace Lees-Maffei and Rebecca Houze (eds)/Design History: Understanding Theory and Method by Kjetil Fallan
Design and Culture
2011
Dangerous Liaisons: Relationships between Design, Craft and Art
Journal of Design History
2004
Made in Italy
Unknown Venue
2014
Studying Advice: Historiography, Methodology, Commentary, Bibliography
Journal of Design History
2003
From Service to Self-Service: Advice Literature as Design Discourse, 1920 1970
Journal of Design History
2001
Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945, by Grace Lees-Maffei
Interiors
2014
Designing Worlds
Unknown Venue
2016
Writing Design
Unknown Venue
2012
It's Personal: Subjectivity in Design History
Design and Culture
2015
Driving sales: Print and TV advertising of cars to women drivers
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
2019
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
Unknown Venue
2019
Real Imagined Communities: National Narratives and the Globalization of Design History
Design Issues
2016
Introduction: The History of Italian Design
Made in Italy
2014
Crafting a Design Counterculture: the Pastoral and the Primitive in Italian Radical Design, 1972–1976
Made in Italy
2014
Iconic Designs
Unknown Venue
2014
‘Made’ in England? The Mediation of Alessi S.P.A.
Made in Italy
2014
Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith, eds. Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers—From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code.
European journal of American studies
2013
Dressing the part(y): 1950s domestic advice books and the studied performance of informal domesticity in the UK and the US
Performance, Fashion and The Modern Interior
2011
INTRODUCTION:
Designing Worlds
A Special Relationship:
Designing Worlds
Introduction: Writing Design
Writing Design
2012
Reading graphic design in the expanded field: An introduction
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
2019
Margolin, Victor (1941–)
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
2016
Hospitality and Home: British and American Cultures of Entertaining
A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age
2021
Design (History) and Heritage (Studies)
Design and Heritage
2021
The Written Object
A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945
2019
Naylor, Gillian Erica (1931–2014)
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
2016
Introduction: Interrogating Iconic Design
Iconic Designs
2014
Design history: from service subject to discrete discipline
Blucher Design Proceedings
2014
From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice
Western Folklore
2002
Knowing Hands
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past
2023
Getting a Handle on It:
Capitalism and the Senses
2023
Design and Heritage
Unknown Venue
2021
Streamliner: Raymond Loewy and Image-Making in the Age of American Industrial Design by John Wall
Technology and Culture
2020
Branding as sign system: Semiotics in action
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
2019
Seeing clearly? Legibility, word and image in postmodern print design
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
2019
How to? Visual techniques of persuasion in guidebooks and manuals
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
2019
Signifying orientalism, chinoiserie and japonisme: Fashion photography in Vogue as a case study
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
2019
A good read? Corporate literature and brand stories: Alessi SpA as a case study
Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
2019
Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism by Alice Twemlow (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2017). ISBN: 9780262035989, hardback; 312 pages, illustrated, hardcover ($34.95).
Design Issues
2019
Reale imaginierte Gemeinschaften Nationale Narrative und die Globalisierung der Designgeschichte
Archive dekolonialisieren
2018
Russian Book Design Today
The New Russian Book
2017
Book Reviews
Design Issues
2016
Goffman, Erving (1922–82)
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
2016
Sparke, Penny (1948–)
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
2016
Woodham, Jonathan (1950–)
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
2016
Attfield, Judith (1937–2006)
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
2016
Ann Baldoni. Review of "Women in Design: From Aino Aalto to Eva Ziesel" by Charlotte Fiell and Clementine Fiell.
caa.reviews
2021
The Brontë Portrait Exhibition
Brontë Society Transactions
1985
Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America, by Dianne Harris
Design and Culture
2014
Juicy Salif Lemon Squeezer, Italy/France
Iconic Designs
2014
The Italian Avant-Garde, 1968–1976, EP Vol. 1 edited by Catharine Rossi and Alex Coles
The Design Journal
2014
Migranti. Recenti ricerche sulla storia dell'emigrazione italiana
SOCIETÀ E STORIA
2010
Paradygmat produkcyjno-konsumpcyjno-mediacyjny
Artium Quaestiones
2021
Thinking Design Through Literature
Journal of Design History
2020
Comfort and Judgement: Nineteenth Century Advice Manuals and the Scripting of Australian Identity
Journal of Design History
2020
The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928, by Luca Cottini, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2018, 328pp., $75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4875-0283-6.
Modern Italy
2019
The poster session as fusing theory and practice in art and design education: Exhibiting an occluded genre
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
2018
Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home
Journal of Design History
2018
A Gathering of Flowers: On Design Anthologies
The Design Journal
2017
Grace Lees-Maffei. Essay on "Design History: The State of the Art."
caa.reviews
2016
Writing Design: Words and Objects
Journal of Design History
2013
Design at Home
Unknown Venue
2013
Fragile Innovation: Episodes in Greek Design History
Journal of Design History
2012
Material Nation: A Consumer's History of Modern Italy, by Emanuela Scarpellini, translated by Daphne Hughes and Andrew Newton, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, xv + 352 pp., €35.00/US$65.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-01-995-8957-9
Modern Italy
2013
Why design history? A multi-national perspective on the state and purpose of the field
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
2012
Reflections on Design Activism and Social Change: Design History Society Annual Conference, September 7–10, 2011, Barcelona
Design Issues
2012
The Design History Reader
Journal of Design History
2012
Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today edited by Penny Sparke et al
The Design Journal
2010
Book Reviews
Design Issues
2010
The Man in the White Suit, Alexander Mackendrick (1951)
Design and Culture
2009
Jean Prouvé—The Poetics of the Technical Object
Design and Culture
2009
The Design Culture Reader
Journal of Design History
2009
Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An interdisciplinary study, edited by Penelope Morris, New York/Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 246 pp., £40.00 (hardback), ISBN 1 4039 7099 8
Modern Italy
2009
Accommodating ‘Mrs. Three‐in‐One’: homemaking, home entertaining and domestic advice literature in post‐war Britain
Women's History Review
2007
Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to the 1970s
Journal of Design History
2007
Clive Edwards, Turning Houses into Homes: A History of the Retailing and Consumption of Domestic Furnishings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. ix + 294pp. 20 b&w illustrations. 2 tables. Bibliography. £52.50
Urban History
2006
Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration
Journal of Design History
2006
Italianità and internationalism: Production, design and mediation at Alessi, 1976–96
Modern Italy
2002
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
Journal of Design History
2002
Architecture, Design and the Family in Britain 1900 1970
Journal of Design History
2001
Women's Leisure in England 1920 1960
Journal of Design History
2001
Marks of Excellence: The History and Taxonomy of Trademarks
Journal of Design History
1998
Processed Lives: Gender and Technology
Journal of Design History
1998

Education

University of Portsmouth

PhD

Portsmouth

Royal College of Art

MA RCA History of Design

London

Aberystwyth University

BA Hons English Literature

Aberystwyth

Experience

University of Hertfordshire

University of Hertfordshire School of Creative Arts

1995Present

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Visiting Professor, Design History and Theory / 20132015

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