MoDA Reading List – MidCentury Design

A reading list relating to some of the MidCentury designers whose work features in the collections at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture

Detail Enid Marx Ogee fabric, 1930

Enid Marx

[Book] Attfield, Judy.(1999) Utility reassessed : the role of ethics in the practice of design. Manchester. Manchester University Press. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Artmonsky, R., Webb, B. and Marx, E. (2013) Enid Marx : design. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article]
Weaver, C. (1989) ‘Enid Marx: Designing Fabrics for the London Passenger Transport Board in the 1930s’, Journal of design history., 2(1), pp. 35–46. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Powers, A. and Marx, E. (2018) Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern. London: Lund Humphries. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Thesis] Morton, Karen.(2018) Democratisation of Design: From Velvet to Moquette – Design changes in London Underground upholstery 1930 – 1950 and the impact on sensory experience. Royal College of Art. Karen Morton | Royal College of Art (rca.ac.uk)

Charles Hasler

[Book] Charles Hasler sends his greetings : the ephemera collection of a mid-century designer / Charles Hasler (2015). London: Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University. Find it on MDX Library Search

Lucienne Day

[Book] Casey, Andrew John.(2014) Lucienne Day : in the spirit of the age. Woodbridge. Antique Collectors’ Club. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Jackson, Lesley.(2001) Robin & Lucienne Day : pioneers of contemporary design. London. Mitchell Beazley. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Shelby, S. et al. (2008) Designing women of postwar Britain : selected work from the collection of Jill S. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III : Their art and the modern interior. US: Jill S. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III. Find it on MDX Library Search

Edward Bawden

[Article] Bawden, Skipwith.(2003) Wit and Wallpaper in World of Interiors Vol. 23 Issue May/5. pp 90-95. Find it on MDX Library Search