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Colour and consumer durables in Good Housekeeping magazine
“Color in appliances probably is a thing of mixed emotions to everybody.” Good Housekeeping Institute, 1956 Readers of today’s interior design magazines, viewers of television shows and social media are likely to be familiar with brightly coloured domestic appliances. They appear frequently in idealised home interiors in print and onscreen. Refrigerators come in pastel blues, […]
“What an Electric Mixer can do to make light work of your kitchen chores”
Design historian Alice Naylor takes a look at how food mixers and refrigerators were presented in Good Housekeeping magazine in the 1950s. The popular thinking in the discourse of household management in the first quarter of the twentieth century was to propose the kitchen as a factory in the home. Household appliances such as vacuum […]
New Book: No More Giants by Dr Jessica Kelly
We are really delighted that Dr Jessica Kelly’s book No More Giants: JM Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review has recently been published by Manchester University Press. Jessica’s research began at MoDA back in 2009, when she received a PhD bursary from Middlesex University. Her PhD focused on the magazine The Architectural Review, held at […]
Widening MoDA’s Reach
Using Jstor's Open Community Collections platform to expand the impact of MoDA's digital resources well beyond our immediate community
MoDA Calendar 2023 now available
MoDA have collaborated with Flame Tree Arts who have produced this calendar for 2023. Featured in the calendar are 12 Katagami (Japanese Stencils) designs from MoDA’s Silver Studio Collection. The calendar is £10.99 and can be purchased here.
Conservation: rebinding Ogawa
The process of conservation revealed unexpected and fascinating details about the construction of the Ogawa albums of collotypes, which helps shed light on their history as part of a dialogue between Japan and the West.