Professor Anne Massey of the School of Art & Design History is the author of Designing Liners: Interior Design Afloat (2006) and an expert in the history of luxury. She will appear on BBC4 television on Sunday 7th February at 7pm in a Timewatch special about The Golden Age of Liners along with Antiques Roadshow expert, Paul Atterbury.
Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture.
Kingston University’s Anne Massey of the Modern Interiors Research Centre is one of the editors of Interiors, a new journal launched this year which provides an invaluable forum for lively discussions and new research findings in the emerging field of interior studies.
Interiors will bring together the best critical work on the analysis of all types of spaces and their impact on the individual. It aims to keep you up to date with the latest research, book, and exhibition reviews, and interviews with interior designers themselves. Published three times a year, the journal will be a tool for academics, researchers, students and practitioners in interior design and architecture as well as cultural studies, anthropology, and art and design history. The inaugural issue will be a double issue available in July 2010
The School of Art and Design’s Anne Massey appears on Glamour’s Golden Age, BBC4 9-10 giving her expert advice on Art Deco design and architecture. Also on the programme was Kingston University’s Pro-Vice Chancellor Penny Sparke.
The programme was reviewed by the Independent’s TV critic Brian Viner 20 October:
“Anyway, from intelligent, original drama to intelligent, original documentary: Monday evenings are suddenly a counterblast to the oft-heard lament that there’s simply nothing on the telly worth watching, and I haven’t even started on Sir David Attenborough yet. The first programme of another three-parter, Glamour’s Golden Age, was fascinating, with nicely scripted and perfectly delivered narration from Hermione Norris, whose very name could be a throwback to a more stylish era. If the Prince of Wales’s set in 1933 didn’t include a Lady Hermione Norris, it really should have done.
The thesis of the series is that glamour’s golden age was the period between the wars. The Jarrow marchers might have taken some convincing of this, although even they were touched by the democratisation of glamour, exemplified by Art Deco picture palaces.
Last night’s programme focused on architecture and design, and was enhanced by just the right number of talking heads, all of them making eloquent and pertinent contributions, which is not always the case. One of the heads even suggested that the notion of “streamlining”, an offshoot of Art Deco and increasingly evident through the 1930s in buildings, furniture, planes, trains and automobiles, was eventually applied to the human body itself. The theory went that the eugenics movement, founded in Britain but embraced most wholeheartedly in the United States, and essentially adopted as a creed by the Nazis, represented an attempt to streamline humanity. It was provocative stuff, connecting Busby Berkeley to Adolf Hitler. And apparently the perfect product of 1930s streamlining was the Spitfire, although by the time the Spitfire enjoyed its finest hour, Art Deco was discredited as a decadent, failing architecture. I hope I’ve got that right. If I haven’t, it’s not for the want of trying. In 20-odd years as a TV reviewer, I’ve never scribbled quite so many notes.”
Vaughan Oliver, the noted graphic designer who has created work for some of the world’s best known musicians, has kindly designed the brand for Kingston’s MA Graduation Show. Vaughan is a Visiting Tutor on the MA/MFA Communication Design programme.
Each year a distinguised practitioner selects the best of postgraduate work from the MA Show. This year Tim Hatley, internationally acclaimed and award winning theatre and film director, will select from the show. Judges from previous years include: Donna Loveday and Malcolm Garrett.
KIOSK is the first art, design and architecture magazine created by artists, architects, designers, theorists, curators and historians and experts in the built environment. Published annually, each issue will feature original artworks and work from emerging and established writers.
The third issue of KIOSK will be available shortly.
The Undergraduate Degree Show ran from Saturday 6 June until Friday 12 June 2009.
Review the ‘one off’ website to read a message from the Dean, see how the show was put together and view examples of students work.