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Finding Ella Briggs
The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern design Ella Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the masses in Austria, was jailed as a suspected spy in Mussolini’s Italy, and thrived in Weimar Germany before suffering persecution under the Nazis. Fleeing to London, she contributed to England’s postwar reconstruction. Yet despite a long and prolific career, her name is largely forgotten today. Finding E...
Design History Beyond the Canon
Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. The book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as well as counter-cultural and sub-cultural material. The authors' research highlights the often marginalised role of gender and racial identity in the production and consumption of design, the politics which underpins design practice and the role of designed objects as pathways of nostalgia and cultural memory. While focused primarily on North American examples from the early 20th century onwards, this collection also features essay...
Trending Now: New Developments in Fashion Studies
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the Fourth Inter-Discplinary.net conference, Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues, held at Oxford University’s Mansfield College in September 2012. The chapters offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to the field of fashion studies. They include analyses of collective and individual identity, global and local expressions, nationalism, modes of self-presentation, sustainability and ethical fashion, developments in the luxury markets, and various theoretical and conceptual considerations. Its authors seek to challenge and contribute to commonly held understandings in fashion related to power dynamics in the fashion industry, representations of gender and class, fashion’s historiography, art and fashion, socio-political considerations, fashion as material culture, and fashion across media, from literature, to music and dance. The goal of this collection is to advance knowledge in the field of fashion studies and to expand upon current socio-cultural understandings of what constitutes the ‘fashion world.’
Fashion in American Life
An original contribution to fashion studies, Fashion in American Life challenges existing approaches to fashion in America by considering who 'makes' fashion-when, where, and how. Avoiding the usual emphasis on the 'history of fashion' which perpetuates the myth of fashion designers, and New York, as the originators of American fashion, this exploration of the everyday allows us to see American fashion as a form of agency, self-identification, creative engagement, and politics. Moving away from the well-trodden accounts of fashion designers and the dominance of New York, much of the fashion uncovered has been under-represented in previous accounts. Through contemporary and historical researc...
Behind Office Doors
Throughout the twentieth century, office buildings became central to the organisation of societies – yet what went on inside them has remained remarkably understudied. Behind Office Doors explores this history by focusing on users and everyday practices. It examines how office spaces were conceived by architects, designers and managers, and how they were inhabited, experienced and contested by workers. From filing cabinets and air conditioning to EU offices and colonial bureaucracies, the chapters trace how design, technology and organisational thinking shaped office life. Alongside case studies on Europe, North America, Asia and colonial Africa, the contributions reflect on how the office has been approached in historiography. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research, this book argues for the development of historical office studies, showing how the design and management of offices have shaped cultures of work.
