Grace Lees-Maffei

2024

The Hand Book

Lees-Maffei, G., 30 Nov 2024, (In preparation) MIT Press.

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The Design History Reader - Revised Second Edition

Lees-Maffei, G. (ed.) & Houze, P. R. (ed.), 18 Oct 2024, Second ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 592 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

2023

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

Lees-Maffei, G., 30 Sept 2023, The Senses in Interior Design: Sensorial expressions and experiences. Potvin, J., Beaulieu, B. & Marchand, M-È. (eds.). 1 ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 152-168 16 p. (Studies in Design and Material Culture).

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

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jun 2023, Capitalism and the Senses. Blaszczyk, R. & Suisman, D. (eds.). Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, p. 162-180 19 p. (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture).

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Knowing Hands: Using tactile research methods in researching and writing the history of design

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2023, Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past : Methods of Knowing. Morrison, K. A. & Rantala, P. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 228-248 21 p. (New Textual Studies in Literature).

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2021

Design (History) and Heritage (Studies): An Introduction

Lees-Maffei, G., 30 Dec 2021, Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging. Lees-Maffei, G. & Houze, R. (eds.). 1 ed. Abingdon: Routledge, p. 1-20 20 p. (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage).

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Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging

Lees-Maffei, G. (ed.) & Houze, P. R. (ed.), 30 Dec 2021, 1 ed. Abingdon: Routledge. 294 p. (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage)

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2020

Hospitality and Home: British and American Cultures of Entertaining

Lees-Maffei, G., 26 Nov 2020, A Cultural History of the Home. Stratigakos, D. & Flather, A. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, Vol. 6.

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Comfort and Judgement: Nineteenth Century Advice Manuals and the Scripting of Australian Identity: Gene Bawden, Monash University Press, 2019. 256pp., illus., paper, $34.95. ISBN: 9781925835489.

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 May 2020, In: Journal of Design History. 33, 2, p. 180-182 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

Streamliner: Raymond Loewy and Image-Making in the Age of American Industrial Design

Lees-Maffei, G., 10 Apr 2020, In: Technology and Culture.

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Thinking Design Through Literature: Susan Yelavich, Routledge, 2019. 346pp., 82 col. illus., cloth, $120.00. ISBN: 9781138712560.

Lees-Maffei, G., 29 Mar 2020, In: Journal of Design History. 2 p.

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Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things

Lees-Maffei, G. (ed.), 23 Jan 2020, Bloomsbury Publishing. 240 p.

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2019

Book Review The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928

Lees-Maffei, G., 22 Apr 2019, In: Modern Italy. 24, 2 p.

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The Written Object: Design Journalism, Consumption and Literature since 1945

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Mar 2019, A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945. Massey, A. (ed.). 1 ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 299-325 27 p. (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History; no. 15).

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A good read? Corporate literature and brand stories: Alessi SpA as a case study

Lees-Maffei, G., 7 Feb 2019, Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context. Lees-Maffei, G. & Maffei, N. P. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 125-143 19 p.

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Branding as sign system: Semiotics in action

Lees-Maffei, G., 7 Feb 2019, Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context. Lees-Maffei, G. & Maffei, N. P. (eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 17-35 19 p.

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Driving sales: Print and TV advertising of cars to women drivers

Lees-Maffei, G., 7 Feb 2019, Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context. Lees-Maffei, G. & Maffei, N. P. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 175-191 17 p.

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How to? Visual techniques of persuasion in guidebooks and manuals

Lees-Maffei, G., 7 Feb 2019, Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context. Lees-Maffei, G. & Maffei, N. P. (eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 161-174 14 p.

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Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context

Lees-Maffei, G. & Maffei, N., 7 Feb 2019, 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 230 p.

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Reading graphic design in the expanded field: An introduction

Lees-Maffei, G., 7 Feb 2019, Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context. Lees-Maffei, G. & Maffei, N. P. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 1-13 13 p.

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Seeing clearly? Legibility, word and image in postmodern print design

Lees-Maffei, G., 7 Feb 2019, Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context. Lees-Maffei, G. & Maffei, N. P. (eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 83-102 20 p.

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Signifying Orientalism, Chinoiserie and Japonisme: Fashion Photography in Vogue as a Case Study

Lees-Maffei, G., 7 Feb 2019, Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context. Lees-Maffei, G. & Maffei, N. P. (eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 103-124 22 p.

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Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism, Alice Twemlow: (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2017). ISBN: 9780262035989, hardback; 312 pages, illustrated, hardcover ($34.95).

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2019, In: Design Issues. 35, 1, p. 91-92 2 p.

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2018

www.graceleesmaffei.org

Lees-Maffei, G., 3 Oct 2018

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The poster session as fusing theory and practice in art and design education: Exhibiting an occluded genre

Thomas, P. & Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Sept 2018, In: Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. 11, 2, p. 233-259 27 p.

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Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Fallan, K. (ed.) & Lees-Maffei, G. (ed.), 1 Jun 2018, Berghahn Books. 296 p.

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Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home. Monica Penick, Yale University Press, 2017. 260 pp., 90 b&w and 96 col. illus., cloth, £50.00. ISBN: 9780300221763

Lees-Maffei, G., 25 May 2018, In: Journal of Design History. 31, 3 p., epy012.

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2017

The New Russian Book: A Graphic Cultural History, by Birgitte Beck Pristed: What’s in a book cover? Grace Lees-Maffei examines a history of graphic design in Russian fiction

Lees-Maffei, G., 13 Jul 2017, Times Higher Education, 2314, p. 49 1 p.

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A Gathering of Flowers: On Design Anthologies

Lees-Maffei, G. & Huppatz, D. J., 4 Jul 2017, In: Design Journal. 20, 4, p. 477-491 15 p.

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2016

Design History: The State of the Art

Lees-Maffei, G., 16 Nov 2016, In: CAA Reviews.

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Design: The Invention of Desire (review)

Lees-Maffei, G., 11 Aug 2016, In: Times Higher Education. 2267, p. 43 1 p.

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The World History of Design (Review)

Lees-Maffei, G., 13 Jul 2016, In: Design Issues. 32, 3, p. 112-114 3 p.

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A Special Relationship: The Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jul 2016, Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization. Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G. (eds.). New York: Berghahn Books, p. 188-210 23 p. (Making Sense of History).

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Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Lees-Maffei, G. (ed.) & Fallan, K. (ed.), 24 Jun 2016, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 281 p. (Making Sense of History; vol. 24)

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Dr Grace Lees-Maffei: Design in Mediation, Domesticity & Globalisation

Lees-Maffei, G., 14 Jun 2016

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A special relationship: The UK-US transatlantic domestic dialogue

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jun 2016, Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization. Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G. (eds.). Berghahn Books, p. 188-210 23 p.

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"Why then the world's mine oyster": Consumption and Globalization

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jun 2016, The Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Sparke, P. & Fisher, F. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 445-456 12 p.

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Introduction: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Lees-Maffei, G., Jun 2016, Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization. Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G. (eds.). New York: Berghahn Books, p. 1-21 22 p. (Making Sense of History).

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From Ferrari to Fendi: 15 objects that define Italian design

Lees-Maffei, G., 29 Feb 2016

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Erving Goffman

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2016, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. Edwards, C. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, Vol. 2. p. 101 1 p.

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Gillian Naylor

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2016, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. Edwards, C. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, Vol. 2. p. 438-9 2 p.

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Jonathan Woodham

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2016, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. Edwards, C. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, Vol. 3. p. 422-3 2 p.

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Judy Attfield

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2016, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. Edwards, C. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, Vol. 1. p. 96-97 2 p.

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Penny Sparke

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2016, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. Edwards, C. (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic, Vol. 3. p. 253 1 p.

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Real imagined communities: National narratives and the globalization of design history

Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2016, In: Design Issues. 31, 4, p. 5-18 14 p.

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Victor Margolin

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2016, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. Edwards, C. (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic, Vol. 2. p. 350-1 2 p.

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‘Why then the world’s mine oyster’: Consumption and globalization, 1851 to now

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 Jan 2016, The Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Taylor & Francis Group, p. 445-456 12 p.

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2015

Copyright Legislation Will Destroy Design Publishing Says Charlotte Fiell

Lees-Maffei, G., 11 Dec 2015, In: Dezeen.

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DESIGN: History and Theory

Lees-Maffei, G., 1 May 2015, Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Kelly, M. (ed.). 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press (OUP)

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Self Portrait Exhibition

Lees-Maffei, G., 28 Apr 2015

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Professor Grace Lees-Maffei

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