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The first book on Swedish designer Greta Magnusson Grossman, this monograph examines her significant contribution to the canon of interior design.
List of contents
Foreword; Sturegatan to Sunset: Greta Magnusson Grossman and the Immigration of Style by Evan Snyderman; Introduction: Towards a Gender-Critical Design History; Chapter 1: Swedish Origins; Chapter 2: A Well-Known Designer; Chapter 3: Living in a Modern Way; Chapter 4: Feminist Historiography: Reconstructing a Legacy; Afterword: Archival Activism. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
About the author
Dr. Harriet Harriss (RIBA, PFHEA, Ph.D.) is a qualified architect and Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. Her teaching, research and writing focus upon pioneering new pedagogic models for design education, as captured in
Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education & the British Tradition, and for widening participation in architecture to ensure it remains as diverse as the society it seeks to serve, a subject she interrogates in her book,
A Gendered Profession. Dean Harriss is also recognized as an advocate for diversity and inclusion within design education and was nominated by
Dezeen as a champion for women in architecture and design in 2019. Her latest book
Architects After Architecture (2020), considers the multi-sector impact of an architectural qualification.
Naomi House is a Designer, Educator and Writer with a specific expertise is in the field of interiors and its psycho-spatial dimension. She has taught at the Royal College of Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Design at Middlesex University. Her previous publications include
The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture (2007), 'Interiority Complex' in
A Gendered Profession (2017), 'Towards Seamful Living', and '(In)Dangered Domesticity' in
Interior Futures (2019).
Summary
The first book on Swedish designer Greta Magnusson Grossman, this monograph examines her significant contribution to the canon of interior design.
