Monographs (Chronological Order)
Jennifer Harris, Lucienne Day – A Career in Design, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1993
Lesley Jackson, Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Contemporary Design, Mitchell Beazley, 2001, new edition 2011
Andrew Casey, Lucienne Day: In the Spirit of the Age, Antique Collectors’ Club Editions, 2014
Other Publications (Chronological Order)
Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Prize Designs for Modern Furniture from the International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1949
Denise Bonnett, ed., Contemporary Cabinet Design and Construction, Batsford, 1956
Dennis and Barbara Young, Furniture in Britain To-day, Tiranti, 1964
Whitechapel Art Gallery, Modern Chairs 1918–1970, London, 1970
Fiona MacCarthy, A History of British Design, 1830-1970, Allen & Unwin, 1979
Sutherland Lyall, Hille: 75 Years of British Furniture, Elron Press / V&A, 1981
Kathryn B. Hiesinger and George H. Marcus, eds., Design Since 1945, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983
Isabelle Anscombe, A Woman’s Touch: Women in Design from 1860 to the Present, Virago, 1984
Mary Schoeser, Fabrics and Wallpapers – Twentieth Century Design, Bell & Hyman, 1986
Jennifer Harris, Sarah Hyde and Greg Smith, 1966 and All That: Design and the Consumer in Britain 1960-1969, Trefoil, 1986
Karl Sembach, Contemporary Furniture: An International Review of Modern Furniture 1950 to the Present, Design Council, 1986
Fiona MacCarthy and Patrick Nuttgens, Eye for Industry: Royal Designers for Industry 1936-1986, Lund Humphries / Royal Society of Arts, 1986
Penny Sparke, Furniture: Twentieth-Century Design, Bell & Hyman, 1986
Peter Dormer, The New Furniture: Trends and Traditions, Thames & Hudson, 1987
Frances Hinchliffe, Fifties Furnishing Fabrics, V&A, 1989
Lesley Jackson, The New Look: Design in the Fifties, Thames & Hudson, 1991
Martin Eidelberg, ed., Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was, Abrams, 1991
Lesley Jackson, ‘Contemporary’ Architecture and Interiors of the 1950s, Phaidon, 1994
The Fine Art Society / Rayner & Chamberlain, Austerity to Affluence: British Art and Design 1945-1962, Merrell Holberton, 1997
Lesley Jackson, The Sixties: Decade of Design Revolution, Phaidon, 1998
Penny Sparke, A Century of Design: Design Pioneers of the 20th Century, Mitchell Beazley, 1998
Ngozi Ikoku, British Textile Design from 1940 to the Present, V&A, 1999
Christopher Frayling, Art and Design: 100 Years at the Royal College of Art, Collins & Brown, 1999
Garry Olson and Peter Toaig, Onetree, Merrell, 2001
Lesley Jackson, 20th Century Pattern Design: Textile and Wallpapers Pioneers, Mitchell Beazley, 2002, new edition 2011
Ngozi Ikoku, ed., Post-War British Textiles, Francesca Galloway, 2006
Sue Kerry, Twentieth Century Textiles, Francesca Galloway, 2007
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Designing Women of Postwar Britain, Denver, 2008
Anna Buruma, Liberty and Co. in the Fifties and Sixties, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2009
Sue Prichard, V&A Pattern: The Fifties, V&A, 2009
Textile Museum, Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain, Washington, 2010
Mary Schoeser, V&A Pattern: Heal’s, V&A, 2012
Judith Miller, ed., Mid-Century Modern: Living with Mid-Century Modern Design, Miller’s, 2012
Lily Crowther, Award Winning British Design 1957-1988, V&A, 2012
Lesley Jackson, Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers: Visionary Textiles and Modern Art, V&A, 2012
Lesley Jackson, Modern British Furniture: Design Since 1945, V&A, 2013
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
Marnie Fogg, The Art of the Tea Towel, Pavilion Books, 2018
Zoe Hendon, Wallpaper, Bloomsbury, 2018
Museums and Archives
Art Institute of Chicago, US: (Lucienne Day silk mosaic)
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham: (Lucienne Day carpet)
Design Archives, University of Brighton: (Design Council Archives)
Design Museum, London: (Robin Day furniture, models and drawings)
The Geffrye Museum of the Home, London: (Robin Day furniture and Lucienne Day textiles)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, US: (Lucienne Day textiles)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada: (Lucienne Day textiles)
Museum of Carpet, Kidderminster (Lucienne Day artwork for Tomkinson's carpets)
The National Archives (Festival of Britain Office records relating to Robin Day, Registered Designs)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, US: (Robin Day furniture)
Röhsska Museum, Gothenberg, Sweden: (Lucienne Day silk mosaic)
Rosenthal Museum, Selb, Germany: (Lucienne Day ceramics)
Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon: (Robin Day posters)
Royal Designers for Industry Archive, Royal Society of Arts, London: (RDI Archives)
VADS (Visual Arts Data Service), online image database: (Design Council Slide Library and Design Council Photographic Index)
Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection, London: (Robin Day posters)
Buildings
Barbican Centre, London
(Robin Day auditorium seating in theatre, concert hall and cinemas)
Churchill College, University of Cambridge
(Robin Day dining chairs in chapel)
John Lewis, Kingston-on-Thames (Lucienne Day silk mosaics: Aspects of the Sun, 1990, and Islands, 1991)
Royal Festival Hall, London (Robin Day auditorium seating in concert hall)
Films
Contemporary Furniture, 1952, produced by Pathé
© Lesley Jackson 2014