Dr Fiona Fisher
Faculties, departments and locations
- Ȧ School of Art
- Department of Critical and Historical Studies
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Curator/Researcher
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am curator of Ȧ's Dorich House Museum and a researcher in Design History, supporting the Modern Interiors Research Centre, whose annual conference I have co-convened since 2008. I am also a co-editor of the centre's most recent anthologies: The Routledge Companion to Design Studies, Routledge, 2017; British Design: Tradition And Modernity After 1948, Bloomsbury, 2016; and Performance, Fashion And The Modern Interior: From The Victorians To Today, Berg, 2011.
I graduated with a BA (Hons) in Art, Architecture and Design History and, in 2008, was awarded a PhD for my research into the design of London's late nineteenth century public houses. My research projects include an area study of Bristol's public houses for Historic England, The Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Public House in Bristol (2015).
I am managing editor of the Journal of Design History and co-editor of Dora: Dialogues on Women's Creative Practice and Thinking.
Qualifications
- PhD (Ȧ, 2008)
- BA (Hons) Art, Architecture and Design History (Ȧ, 2004)
Domains
My research covers the history of the design of the modern interior from c.1870 to today, with a focus on the relationship between public and private interiors. I am interested in the design of everyday leisure spaces, such as public houses, shops, restaurants and cafes and in the ways in which they support different forms of identification and social use. My current research on the design of the British pub at home and abroad considers expressions of domesticity and national identity within the sphere of international leisure.
Publications
The Routledge companion to design studies
(2016). Abingdon, U.K.: (Routledge)
British design: tradition and modernity after 1948
(2015). London, U.K.: (Bloomsbury Academic)
Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968
Fisher, Fiona (2015). Abingdon, U.K.: (Routledge)
Picker House and collection: a late 1960s home for art and design
(2013). London, U.K.: (Philip Wilson)
Performance, fashion and the modern interior: from the Victorians to today
(2011). Oxford, U.K.: (Berg)
Inside London's railway termini, c.1870-1939
Fisher, Fiona, 2020, London Journal (45), 2, pp 211-239
Complex interior spaces in London, 1850-1930 : introduction
Fisher, Fiona, Lara-Betancourt, Patricia, Kelley, Victoria and Sparke, Penny, 2020, London Journal (45), 2, pp 177-188
Light, airy and open : the design and use of the suburban public-house garden in England between the wars
Fisher, Fiona and Preston, Rebecca, 2019, (39), 1, pp 5-21
Kenneth Wood : modern Surrey houses of the 1950s and 1960s
Fisher, Fiona, 2015, Twentieth Century Society Journal, 12, pp 156-171
Presenting the perfect pint: drink and visual pleasure in late nineteenth-century London
Fisher, Fiona, 2012, Visual Resources (28), 4, pp 324-339
The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910
Fisher, Fiona, 2012, Journal of Design History (25), 4, pp 427-429
New interior identities : inhabiting London’s railway stations, winter gardens, people’s palaces, and department stores, 1830–1920
Fisher, Fiona, Lara-Betancourt, Patricia and Sparke, Penny (2023). In: Marinic, Gregory, (ed.), The interior urbanism theory reader. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge
The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c.1945-75
Fisher, Fiona (2023). In: Potvin, John, (eds.), Marchand, Marie-Ève, (eds.) and Beaulieu, Benoit, (eds.), The senses in interior design : sensorial expressions and experiences. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, pp 189-202
A continuous landscape? Neighbourhood planning and the new "local" in post-war Bristol
Fisher, Fiona and Preston, Rebecca (2018). In: Sparke, Penny, (eds.), Brown, Pat, (eds.), Lara-Betancourt, Patricia, (eds.), Lee, Gini, (eds.) and Taylor, Mark, (eds.), Flow: interior, landscape and architecture in the era of liquid modernity. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury, pp 168-179
Brown, Eleanor Stockstrom McMillen (1890-1991)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 198-198
Cliffe, Clarice (1899-1972)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 249-249
Colefax, Lady Sibyl (1874-1950)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 258-259
De Morgan, William Frend (1839-1917)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 342-342
Draper, Dorothy Tuckerman (1889-1969)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 434-434
Fowler, John (1906-77)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 36-36
Hadley, Albert (1920-2012)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 127-128
Hicks, David Nightingale (1929-98)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 149-150
Jiřičná, Eva (1939-)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 259-259
Koppel, Henning (1918-81)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 292-293
Lindberg, Frederick Stigurd (Stig) (1916-82)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 323-324
McClelland, Nancy Vincent (1877-1959)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 364-365
Mellor, David Rogerson (1930-2009)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 371-372
Parish, Sister (Dorothy May Kinnicutt) (1910-94)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 35-36
Queensberry Hunt (David Queensberry [1929-] and Martin Hunt [1942-])
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 132-133
Regulating design : spaces and boundaries of the late nineteenth-century public house
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Sparke, Penny, (eds.) and Fisher, Fiona, (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 421-432
Robsjohn-Gibbings, Terence (1905-76)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 164-164
Stabler, Harold (1872-1945)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 258-258
Weil, Daniel (1953-)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.), The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 410-410
The spaces and places of British modernity
Sparke, Penny and Fisher, Fiona (2015). In: Breward, Christopher, (eds.), Fisher, Fiona, (eds.) and Wood, Ghislaine, (eds.), British design : tradition and modernity after 1948. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, pp 15-24
The Picker House: a British house with an international outlook
Fisher, Fiona (2013). In: Black, Jonathan, (eds.), Falkner, David, (eds.), Fisher, Fiona, (eds.), Lloyd, Fran, (eds.), Preston, Rebecca, (eds.) and Sparke, Penny, (eds.), The Picker House and collection: a late 1960's home for art and design. London, U.K.: Philip Wilson, pp 13-46
Viewing the early twentieth-century institutional interior through the pages of Living London
Fisher, Fiona (2013). In: Hamlett, Jane, (eds.), Hoskins, Lesley, (eds.) and Preston, Rebecca, (eds.), Residential institutions in Britain, 1725-1970: inmates and environments. London, U.K.:, pp 17-33
Leisure interiors in the work of the Camden Town Group
Black, Jonathan, Fisher, Fiona and Sparke, Penny (2012). In: Bonett, Helena, (eds.), Holt, Ysanne, (eds.) and Munday, Jennifer, (eds.), The Camden Town Group in context. London, U.K.: Tate
1940-1970
Fisher, Fiona (2011). In: Fisher, Fiona, (eds.), Lara-Betancourt, Patricia, (eds.), Keeble, Trevor, (eds.) and Martin, Brenda, (eds.), Performance, fashion and the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. Oxford, U.K.: Berg, pp 137-144
Privacy and supervision in the modernised public house, 1872-1902
Fisher, Fiona (2009). In: Sparke, Penny, (eds.), Massey, Anne, (eds.), Keeble, Trevor, (eds.) and Martin, Brenda, (eds.), Designing the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. Oxford, U.K.: Berg, pp 41-52
The Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Public House in Bristol
Fisher, Fiona and Preston, Rebecca (2015). Online: (Historic England)
"A place of public resort" : the London Railway Terminal 1836-1914
Fisher, Fiona(2015). In: "How We Live, and How We Might Live": Design and the Spirit of Critical Utopianism, 11-13 Sep 2015 :San Francisco, U.S.
The Picker House: charting the boundaries of British architectural and interior design practice in the 1960s
Fisher, Fiona and Sparke, Penny(2014). In: IDEC 2014 Annual Conference, 6-10 Mar 2014 :New Orleans, U.S.A.
A living green background to the works of art: the site and gardens of a late 1960s home for art and design
Fisher, Fiona and Preston, Rebecca(2013). In: History of Gardens and Landscapes, 17 May 2013 :London, U.K.
Kenneth Wood Associates: projects
Fisher, Fiona(2011). In: Picker One, 27 Jun 2011 :Ȧ upon Thames, U.K.
Presenting the perfect pint: drinking and visual pleasure in late nineteenth century London
Fisher, Fiona(2011). In: Food and Drink: their Social, Political and Cultural Histories, 15-17 Jun 2011 :Preston, U.K.
Viewing the institutional interior through the pages of Living London
Fisher, Fiona(2010). In: Inhabiting institutions in Britain 1700-1950, 14-15 Sep 2010 :London, U.K.
Kenneth Wood - modern architecture for an art collector, the Stanley Picker House (1968) and other work
Fisher, Fiona(2009). In: 'Suburban modernity' - modern homes in Surrey, 19 Feb 2009 :Ȧ upon Thames, U.K.
Glass politics: visual hierarchies in the late Victorian public house
Fisher, Fiona(2006). In: Futures: art, architecture and design histories for the twenty-first century, 01 Mar 2006 :Ȧ upon Thames, U.K.
Real place, imagined space? The artistic image as visual evidence
Fisher, Fiona(2005). In: Locating Design: The Design History Society Annual Conference, 07 - 09 Sep 2005 :London, U.K.
Space Electronic : Then and Now
Rossi, Catharine, Kelly, Ben and Fisher, Fiona (2014).
In public, in private : design and modernisation in the London public house, 1872-1902
Fisher, Fiona Elizabeth (2007), PhD thesis, Ȧ