Thank you! I’m glad you like the new, but also oddly familiar, cover.
How long does the New Year last? It's not too late to reflect on 2024 and look ahead to 2025, is it? I do exactly that in my latest blog post at www.graceleesmaffei.org/home/2025/1/...
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Post - Grace Lees-Maffei
Lees-Maffei reviews her working year in 2024 and looks ahead to work planned in 2025.
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Wow - Macron’s ‘contemporary gesture’ for Notre Dame is revealed to take the form of replacing 6 of 7 of Viollet-le-Duc’s surviving chapel windows with newly commissioned stained glass. This removal is in contravention of the Venice Charter. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
‘Ludicrous’: bitter row erupts over plan to replace original Notre Dame windows
Fury as President Macron reveals the new ‘contemporary gesture’ for cathedral devastated by 2019 fire
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I'm honoured to be giving the 2024 lecture for The Pugin Society AGM at The Art Workers' Guild this Sat. I'll talk about some of my research for The Hand Book, reading 2 examples of contemporary art via C19th design reformers Pugin, Ruskin & Morris. Read more on my blog - link in bio.
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NEW book review: Design History and Culture: Methods and Approaches edited by Javier Gimeno-Martínez, reviewed by Penny Sparke @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social. Read now at https://buff.ly/4fIiYpz #JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory
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Lovely reflection by @gracelm.bsky.social on @kerrymeakin.bsky.social book launch: The Professionalisation of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939 www.graceleesmaffei.org/home/2024/11...
Post - Grace Lees-Maffei
Reporting on the book launch for Kerry Meakin’s The Professionalisation of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939 (Bloomsbury) and reflecting on the development of the Cultural Histories of Design book ...
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Welcome to BlueSky @jodesignhistory.bsky.social here remembering John Langrish #designhistory #design #history
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John Langrish, who died in September 2024, was an influential figure in design research, guiding numerous PhD students with intellectual clarity. Read full obituary at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
It’s here: the second edition of The Design History Reader! Thanks to co-editor Rebecca Houze & the staff at Bloomsbury, to readers of the 1st edition who made a 2nd possible, and to the authors whose work is showcased here. Available to preorder now! #designhistory #newbook #design #celebrate
New on my blog, a post reflecting on the symposium I convened to celebrate the first decade of #DHeritage the professional doctorate in heritage which I direct the University of Hertfordshire www.graceleesmaffei.org/home/2024/11...
I forgot hashtags: #designhistory #history #materialculture #heritage #writing #writer #editor #professor
Hello! I’m a design historian writing a book about hands. I’ve published on globalization & national identities, mediation, domestic advice, methodology & historiography. I’m Chair, Journal of Design History; Trustee, Design History Society; and Co-Series Editor for Cultural Histories of Design.
The professional doctorate in heritage - DHeritage - students had a super workshop yesterday on Heritage Fictions and Gothic Tourism led by Dr Kaja Franck. A morning of Strawberry Hill House and then the afternoon got darker… #DHeritage #heritage #doctorate #researchdegree
