Publications

Books

Now published in the UK | US release in Summer 2024
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Book Chapters

“Reconsidering Gender at RISD:  Interior Architecture Education and Austrian Émigré Architect Ernst Lichtblau,” in Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories, Sarah Lichtman and Jilly Traganou, eds. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2023.

“Cosy, comfortable and contented domestic interiors in interwar Vienna,” in Interiors in the Era of Covid-19: Interior Design between the Public and Private Realms, Penny Sparke et al, eds. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, January 2023.

“Who knows BEST? Gendered Views of Interwar Design Reform and Wiener Wohnkultur” in Erasures and Eradications in Viennese Modernist Art, Architecture, and Design, Megan Brandow-Faller and Laura Morowitz, eds. New York: Routledge, 2022.

“Longing for Past and Future: Cultural Identity and Central European Revivalist Glassware Designs,” in Revival: Memories, Identities, Utopias. Ayla Lepine, Matthew Lodder, and Rosalind McKeever, eds. London: Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, 2015.

Peter Behrens, tableware and liqueur glasses, designed 1900–4 and Jan Kotěra, Punch Bowl Set with Six Glasses, designed 1904–10 (Corning Museum of Glass) illustrated in “Longing for Past and Future: Cultural Identity and Central European Revivalist Glassware Designs.”

Edited Volumes

OBJECTS: USA 2020

Glenn Adamson with contributions by Zesty Meyers, Evan Snyderman, Lena Vigna, and James Zemaitis. Michelle Jackson-Beckett and Mina Warchavchik Hugerth, eds. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2020

OBJECTS: USA 2020 hails a new generation of artist-craftspeople by revisiting the groundbreaking exhibition on American craft, OBJECTS: USA, which opened at the Smithsonian Institution in 1969 before going on an extensive tour around the United States and Europe.

Wendell Castle Scrapbook, 1958–1980

Alison Castle and Evan Snyderman. Michelle Jackson-Beckett, ed. New York: Damiani Press, 2020

This large-format scrapbook facsimile, compiling Wendell Castle’s press clippings, invitations and ephemera, records both his acclaim and neglect during the golden years of the studio movement.

José Zanine Caldas

Amanda Beatriz Palma de Carvalho et al. Mina Warchavchik Hugerth, Otavio Nazareth,
and Michelle Jackson-Beckett, eds. New York/São Paulo: Editora Olhares, 2019

This book surveys the work of Brazilian design and architecture polymath José Zanine Caldas (1919-2001), celebrating the centenary of his birth. It includes original photography of Zanine’s work alongside an extensive survey of personal and institutional collections, much of which is being published here for the first time.

Reviews

Book Review: Elana Shapira, ed. Designing Transformation. Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism (Bloomsbury), Art East Central, forthcoming.

Book Review: Sabine Wieber, Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design (Bloomsbury), Journal of Design History, July 2022.

Book Review: Robin Schuldenfrei, Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900–1933 (Princeton University Press), caa.reviews, 2022.

Exhibition Review: “The Beginning: Art in Austria 1945-1980,” Albertina Modern, The Burlington Magazine, November 2020.

Catalogue Review: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Rainald Franz (eds.) Otto Prutscher: Allgestalter der Wiener Moderne | Universal Designer of Viennese Modernism (Museum of Applied Arts Vienna), Journal of Design History, Spring 2020.

Catalogue Review: Elisabeth Schmuttermeier and Christian Witt-Dörring, “Koloman Moser: Universal Artist between Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann (Museum of Applied Arts Vienna), Journal of Design History, Fall 2019.

Book Review: Christian Brandstätter et al, Vienna 1900 Complete (Thames & Hudson), West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, Spring 2019.

Exhibition and Catalogue Review: Christian Witt-Dörring and Janis Staggs, eds., et al, Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932: The Luxury of Beauty (Neue Galerie New York), West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, Spring 2018.

Catalogue Review: Rainald Franz, ed. The Glass of the Architects: Vienna 1900–1937 (Museum of Applied Arts Vienna), Journal of Design History 30, Issue 4, 3 November 2017.