{"title":"Innovation and Revivalism: Powell & Sons’ Opus Sectile Mosaic","authors":"Lily Crowther","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The late-nineteenth century saw a flourishing of mosaic in British architecture. Both traditional and innovative methods of mosaic-making were deployed in a wide variety of contexts from the 1850s onwards: in domestic, public, sacred, and secular buildings; for interior and exterior decoration; at large and small scales. Widespread experimentation with new materials, facilitated by the affordability of energy-intensive manufacturing processes, was complemented by a growing body of scholarship on the history of mosaics. Opus sectile was a novel type of opaque glass for mosaic-making that was developed by glassmakers James Powell & Sons in the mid-1860s. This new material quickly gained in popularity and was used in a variety of architectural projects throughout the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries (for a list see Dennis Hadley, Powell’s Opus Sectile Locations [Coventry: Tiles & Architectural Ceramics Society, 2018]). Through a discussion of the development of opus sectile and its use in the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, the article explores its place in a landscape of both technological innovation and stylistic revivalism.","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47503242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No More Giants: J.M. Richards, Modernism and the Architectural Review","authors":"Alborz Dianat","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44968443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Post-Craft","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44057933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Objects: A Cultural History of Emotive Design","authors":"Lina Hakim","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad006","url":null,"abstract":"In his 1936 essay ‘La Crise de l’Objet’, André Breton identifies a volonté d’objectivisation; an unprecedented drive toward the concrete in contemporary art and science that underlies the surrealist endeavor to bring about ‘a total revolution of the object’.1 With reference to diverse artifacts displayed in the first Surrealist Exhibition of Objects,2 he elaborates on this new conception of the object and lists some of the strategies adopted by the surrealists to transcend an object’s ‘manifest life’ and liberate it from the ‘mad beast of conventional use [usage]’. Under such modes of engagement, Breton explains: […] this object, as complete as it is, reverts to an uninterrupted succession of latencies, not specifically bound to it and calling for its transformation. This object’s conventional value disappears behind its representational value and, by this means, brings to prominence its picturesque aspect, its evocative power3. In Moving Objects, Damon Taylor likewise identifies a notable tendency in our relationship to the material culture of everyday life, a particular understanding of domestic objects specifically, that is bringing about what he refers to as an ‘affective turn in design’ (p. 7). In this book, he assembles a compelling collection of objects under the banner of ‘emotive design’, artifacts that ‘operate in the realm of emotion for its own ends, because feeling is valuable in itself’ (p. 9). As with the objects considered by Breton, the emphasis is placed on their evocative power, and one of Taylor’s key aims is to examine the ways in which they are ‘manipulated [by designers] in an exploration of our emotional relationship to the physical matter of life’ (p. 10). By focusing his study on furniture and furnishings, the ‘intimate’ objects of everyday life that constitute ‘the landscape we inhabit’ (p. 10), he further aims to highlight ‘the affective space of the domestic as a site of expression and experimentation’ (pp. 11–12) and points toward its subversive potential.","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135822320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain","authors":"Johanna Lance","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad007","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain Get access Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain, Verity Wilson, Reaktion Books, 2022. 352 pp., 144 illus., 36 in color, cloth, £25.00. ISBN: 9781789145298. Johanna Lance Johanna Lance PhD Candidate University of Brighton, Brighton, UK Email: J.Lance2@brighton.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, epad007, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad007 Published: 27 March 2023","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135822321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Design Organizations: Histories, Legacies, Values","authors":"H Alpay Er","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad008","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article International Design Organizations: Histories, Legacies, Values Get access Jeremy Aynsley, Alison J. Clarke, and Tania Messel(eds.), Bloomsbury, 2022. 352 pp., 65 bw illus, cloth. $103.50. ISBN: 9781350112513. H Alpay Er H Alpay Er Professor of Industrial Design, Özyeğin University, Orman Sok. Nişantepe, Çekmeköy, İstanbul, TurkeyRegional Advisor, World Design Organization (WDO), Montreal, Canada Email: alpay.er@ozyegin.edu.tr Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, epad008, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad008 Published: 27 March 2023","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135822319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980: Revolt and Resilience","authors":"Monica Obniski","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad011","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980: Revolt and Resilience Get access Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980: Revolt and Resilience, Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund and Anders V. Munch (eds.), Routledge, 2022. 244 pp., 55 b&w illus., cloth, £120.00. ISBN 9781032290423. Monica Obniski Monica Obniski Curator of Decorative Arts and Design High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: monica.obniski@high.org Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, epad011, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad011 Published: 27 March 2023","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135822317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy","authors":"Davide Fornari","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad013","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy Get access Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy. Lindsay Caplan, University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 328 pp., 47 b&w and 8 col. illus., cloth, $132.00. ISBN: 9781517909956. Davide Fornari Davide Fornari Full professor and head of the Research and Development Department ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (HES-SO) Lausanne, Switzerland Email: davide.fornari@ecal.ch https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3492-7491 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, epad013, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad013 Published: 27 March 2023","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135822318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Architecture of Social Reform: Housing, Tradition, and German Modernism","authors":"Maja Lorbek","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61154387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evelyn & William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts & Crafts","authors":"Cátia Costa Rodrigues","doi":"10.1093/jdh/epad003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epad003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45088,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Design History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46681177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}