#Magazines Category
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 […]
Ellen Martin: The Value of the Everyday
The following piece is by Ellen Martin, who recently completed an MA in Design and Material Culture at Brighton University. Last year I completed my MA in History of Design and Material Culture at the University of Brighton – and the wonderful collections at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA) were crucial to […]
Object Focus: ‘My Home’ magazine
Mondays can be tough for some, so we thought we’d help ease you into the week by introducing the newest addition to MoDA’s collection: A magazine series called My Home which makes for a fantastic and distractingly good read. My Home is a typical woman’s consumer magazine of the interwar period with articles on cooking, household management, beauty, […]