Research outputs

Selected Centre Publications

Interiors in the Era of Covid-19: Interior Design between the Public and Private Realms, Bloomsbury, 2023
Editors: Penny SparkeErsi IoannidouPat KirkhamStephen Knott and Jana Scholze

Shaping the American Interior: Structures, Contexts and Practices, Routledge, 2018
Editors: Paula Lupkin and Penny Sparke

Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity, Bloomsbury, 2018
Editors: Patricia Brown, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Gini Lee, Penny Sparke, Mark Taylor

Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail (Routledge, 2017)
Editors: Patricia Lara‐Betancourt, Anca I. Lasc and Margaret Maile Petty

The Routledge Companion to Design Studies, Routledge, 2016
Editors: Fiona Fisher and Penny Sparke

British Design: Tradition and Modernity After 1948, Bloomsbury, 2015
Editors: Christopher Breward, Fiona Fisher, Ghislaine Wood

Interiors: Design Architecture Culture 5/2 (2014): 131 -139. Special Issue: Seductive Discourses: design advice for the home
Editors: Emma Hardy and Patricia Lara-Betancourt

Biography, Identity and the Modern Interior (Ashgate, 2013)
Editors: Penny Sparke, Anne Massey

Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today (Berg, 2011)
Editors: Fiona Fisher, Trevor Keeble, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Brenda Martin

Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today (Berg, 2009)
Editors: Penny Sparke, Anne Massey, Trevor Keeble, Brenda Martin

The Modern Period Room, The Construction of the Exhibited Interior 1870-1950 (Routledge, 2006)
Editors: Penny Sparke, Brenda Martin, Trevor Keeble

Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960 (Routledge, 2003)
Editors: Penny Sparke and Brenda Martin

Selected Individual Publications

Dr Fiona Fisher
Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968 (Routledge, 2015)

Professor Pat Kirkham
Kirkham, Pat, ed. Women designers in the USA 1900-2000: diversity and difference (Yale University Press, 2000)

Dr Stephen Knott
Amateur Craft: History and Theory (Bloomsbury, 2015)

Dr Sorcha O'Brien
Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and Electricity in Ireland (Irish Academic Press, 2017). 

Dr Catharine Rossi
Crafting Design in Italy: from postwar to postmodernism (Manchester University Press, 2015)