in books
Monographs
Andrew Casey
Lucienne Day: In the Spirit of the Age
Antique Collectors’ Club Editions, 2014
Lesley Jackson
Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Contemporary Design
Mitchell Beazley, 2001, new edition 2011
Jennifer Harris
Lucienne Day – A Career in Design
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1993
Other Publications
Nicholas Kenyon
Building Utopia: The Barbican Centre
Batsford, 2022
Alistair Fair
Peter Moro and Partners
Liverpool University Press, 2021
Keith Stephenson and Mark Hampshire
Mid-Century Modern Living: The Mini Moderns guide to pattern and style
Kyle Books, 2019
Zoe Hendon
Wallpaper
Bloomsbury, 2018
Marnie Fogg
The Art of the Tea Towel
Pavilion Books, 2018
Leslie Williamson
Modern Originals: At Home with Midcentury European Designers
Rizzoli, 2014
Jonathan Glancey
A Very British Revolution: 150 Years of John Lewis
Laurence King Publishing, 2014
Lesley Jackson
Lesley Jackson
Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers: Visionary Textiles and Modern Art
V&A, 2012
Lily Crowther
Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood
British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age
V&A, 2012
Judith Miller
Mid-Century Modern: Living with Mid-Century Modern Design
Miller’s, 2012
Mary Schoeser
V&A Pattern: Heal’s
V&A, 2012
Textile Museum
Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain
Washington, 2010
Sue Prichard
V&A Pattern: The Fifties
V&A, 2009
Anna Buruma
Liberty and Co. in the Fifties and Sixties
Antique Collectors’ Club, 2009
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Designing Women of Postwar Britain
Denver, 2008
Sue Kerry
Neo-Classicism to Pop, part 2: Twentieth Century Textiles
Francesca Galloway, 2007
Ngozi Ikoku, ed.
Post-War British Textiles
Francesca Galloway, 2006
Lesley Jackson
20th Century Pattern Design: Textile and Wallpapers Pioneers
Mitchell Beazley, 2002, new edition 2011
Garry Olson and Peter Toaig
Onetree
Merrell, 2001
Christopher Frayling
Art and Design: 100 Years at the Royal College of Art
Collins & Brown, 1999
Penny Sparke
A Century of Design: Design Pioneers of the 20th Century
Mitchell Beazley, 1998
Lesley Jackson
The Sixties: Decade of Design Revolution
Phaidon, 1998
The Fine Art Society / Rayner & Chamberlain
Austerity to Affluence: British Art and Design 1945-1962
Merrell Holberton, 1997
Lesley Jackson
‘Contemporary’: Architecture and Interiors of the 1950s
Phaidon, 1994
Martin Eidelberg
Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was
Abrams, 1991
Lesley Jackson
The New Look: Design in the Fifties
Thames & Hudson, 1991
Frances Hinchliffe
Fifties Furnishing Fabrics
V&A, 1989
Peter Dormer
The New Furniture: Trends and Traditions
Thames & Hudson, 1987
Penny Sparke
Furniture: Twentieth-Century Design
Bell & Hyman, 1986
Fiona MacCarthy and Patrick Nuttgens
Eye for Industry: Royal Designers for Industry 1936-1986
Lund Humphries / Royal Society of Arts, 1986
Klaus-Jurgen Sembach
Contemporary Furniture: An International Review of Modern Furniture 1950 to the Present
Design Council, 1986
Jennifer Harris, Sarah Hyde and Greg Smith
1966 and All That: Design and the Consumer in Britain 1960-1969
Trefoil, 1986
Mary Schoeser
Fabrics and Wallpapers – Twentieth Century Design
Bell & Hyman, 1986
Isabelle Anscombe
A Woman’s Touch: Women in Design from 1860 to the Present
Virago, 1984
Kathryn B. Hiesinger and George H. Marcus
Design Since 1945
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983
Sutherland Lyall
Hille: 75 Years of British Furniture
Elron Press / V&A, 1981
Fiona MacCarthy
A History of British Design
1830-1970, Allen & Unwin, 1979
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Modern Chairs 1918–1970
London, 1970
Dennis and Barbara Young
Furniture in Britain To-day
Tiranti, 1964
Denise Bonnett
Contemporary Cabinet Design and Construction
Batsford, 1956
Edgar Kaufmann
Jr., Prize Designs for Modern Furniture from the International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1949