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Grace Lees-Maffei is a Professor of Design History and Director of the Professional Doctorate in Heritage (DHeritage) at the University of Hertfordshire. Grace's published work is available in The Design History Reader (Berg 2010), Writing Design: Words and Objects (Berg 2012), Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design (Bloomsbury 2013), Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945 (Routledge 2013), Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things (Bloomsbury 2014), Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization (Berghahn, 2016), Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), Design and Heritage (Routledge 2022) and in journals including Design Issues, Design ...more

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The Design History Reader, Second Edition (2025)

Along with my co-editor Prof Rebecca Houze (Northern Illinois University, USA), I am delighted to introduce the second edition, fully revised and expanded, of our book, The Design History Reader, which is published by Bloomsbury (2025). Thanks to all those who read the first edition, cited it, and added it to course curricula internationally, we are now able to launch a second, updated, edition. Y

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	The Design History Reader by Grace Lees-Maffei (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rebecca Houze (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iconic Designs: 50 Stories About 50 Things 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design by Grace Lees-Maffei (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kjetil Fallan (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Design: Words and Objects 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context by Grace Lees-Maffei (Goodreads Author), Nicolas Maffei 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context by Grace Lees-Maffei (Goodreads Author), Nicolas Maffei it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging by Grace Lees-Maffei (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rebecca Houze (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Professionalization as a Focus in Interior Design History it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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