Dr Grace Lees-Maffei
Hatfield, United Kingdom
Research field: Design - Miscellaneous
Design History; Design Discourse;
Publications
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Journal Article (11)
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(2010) Writing Design: Words, Myths and Practices. In Working Papers on Design.Download HTML (4.36 KB)
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Grace Lees-Maffei (2009) The Man in the White Suit, Alexander Mackendrick (1951), 223-225. In Design and Culture 1 (2).
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G. Lees-Maffei (2009) The Production-Consumption-Mediation Paradigm, 351-376. In Journal of Design History 22 (4).
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G. Lees-Maffei (2008) Introduction: Professionalization as a Focus in Interior Design History — J Design Hist, 1-18. In Journal of Design History 21 (1).Download HTML (179.03 KB)
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Grace Lees-Maffei (2007) Accommodating 'Mrs. Three-in-One': homemaking, home entertaining and domestic advice literature in post-war Britain - Women's History Review, 723-754. In Women's History Review 16 (5).Download HTML (58.21 KB)
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(2007) Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image. In Working Papers on Design.Download HTML (4.94 KB)
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Grace Lees-Maffei (2004) Dangerous Liaisons: Relationships between Design, Craft and Art, 207-220. In Journal of Design History 17 (3).
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Grace Lees-Maffei (2003) Studying Advice: Historiography, Methodology, Commentary, Bibliography, 1-14. In Journal of Design History 16 (1).
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Grace Lees-Maffei (2002) Italianita and internationalism: Production, design and mediation at Alessi, 1976-96 - Modern Italy, 37-57. In Modern Italy 7 (1).Download HTML (58.18 KB)
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G Lees-Maffei (2001) From Service to Self-Service: Advice Literature as Design Discourse, 1920–1970 — J Design Hist, 187-206. In Journal of Design History 14 (3).Download HTML (42.59 KB)
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Book (2)
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(2011) Writing Design: Words and Objects. In Berg Publishers.
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Grace Lees-Maffei, Rebecca Houze (2010) The Design History Reader, 544. In Berg Publishers.
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Book Section (4)
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Grace Lees-Maffei (2012) ‘Small Change? Emily Post’s Etiquette'. In Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers.
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Grace Lees-Maffei (2011) ‘Dressing the Part(y): 1950s Domestic Advice Books and the Studied Performance of Informal Domesticity in the UK and the US', 183-196. In Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior.
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Grace Lees-Maffei (2002) 'Men, Motors, Markets and Women', 363-370. In Autopia.Download PDF (5.21 MB)
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Grace Lees (1998) 'An Analysis of the Art Craft Debate with Reference to the Work of Chatwin: Martin', 7-20. In Ring of Fire.
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Conference Proceedings (1)
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Grace Lees-Maffei (2000) 'Belonging and Belongings: Etiquette Writing as Design Discourse 1920-1970’, 102-117. In Making and Unmaking.
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Encyclopedia Article (2)
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Grace Lees (1997) Gottfried Semper, 1151-3.
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Grace Lees (1997) Norman Shaw, 1159-62.
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Awards and Grants
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Feb 2011Design History Society Research Award (for Writing Design: Words and Objects book publication) View website
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Nov 2008Design History Society Research Award (for The Design History Reader book publication) View website
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Oct 2007AHRC Research Leave Scheme (for 'Designing Domesticity' research project) View website
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Sep 2005Design History Society Event Award (for 'Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image' View website
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Dec 2004Design History Society 25th Anniversary Research Award (for 'Designing Domesticity' research project View website
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Mar 2004Design History Society Event Award (for TVAD Symposium 'Relationships between Text, Narrative and Im View website
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Apr 2002University of California, Berkeley Fellowship (to deliver conference paper) View website
Biographical Information
Dr Grace Lees-Maffei MA RCA FHEA is Reader in Design History and TVAD Research Group Co-ordinator, University of Hertfordshire, and from June 2011-June 2016 is Managing Editor of the Journal of Design History (Design History Society/Oxford University Press). She researches the mediation of design. Publications include Writing Design: Words and Objects (Berg, 2011), The Design History Reader, co-edited with Rebecca Houze (Berg, 2010), chapters in Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers; Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior; and Autopia and articles in the Journal of Design History, Modern Italy, and Women’s History Review. An advisory board member for The Poster, Grace was an editor of the Journal of Design History (2002-8) and Treasurer of the Design History Society (1998-2002).
CV
Professional Experience
2011 - Present
2010 - Present
Reader in Design History at University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, United Kingdom
Classes taught:
BA Hons Graphic Design & Illustration Dissertation
Hatfield, United Kingdom
Classes taught:
BA Hons Graphic Design & Illustration Dissertation
Sep 2000 - Mar 2010
Jan 1998 - Sep 2000
Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, United Kingdom
Hatfield, United Kingdom
Jan 1997 - Dec 1997
Oct 1996 - Oct 1997
Visiting Lecturer at University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester
Epsom, United Kingdom
Epsom, United Kingdom
Sep 1995 - Dec 1997
Visiting Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, United Kingdom
Hatfield, United Kingdom
Jul 1995 - Jul 1995
Exhibition Assistant at Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Oct 1994 - Jun 1998
Jul 1993 - Jul 1993
Jul 1992 - Aug 1992
Jun 1992 - Jun 1992
Research Assistant at State Apartments & Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, Kensington Palace
London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Education
Jan 2000 - May 2005
Oct 1994 - Jun 1996
Oct 1991 - Jun 1994
Contact Information
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