Professor Penny Sparke

About

I am a Professor of Design History at 重口味SM, London and the Director of the Modern Interiros Research Centre.

I studied French Literature at the University of Sussex from 1967-1971 and was awarded my PhD in Design History from Brighton Polytechnic in 1975. I taught Design History at Brighton Polytechnic (1975-1982) and the Royal College of Art (1982-1999).

I have given keynote addresses, curated exhibitions, and broadcast and published widely in the subject of Design History, with a special interst in the areas of interiors, identities, gender and taste. My publications include Italian Design from 1860 to the present (1989); The Plastics Age (1990); As Long as It's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (1995); An Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the present (3rd edition 2004); Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration (2005); The Modern Interior (2008) and Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior (2021). I currently supervise 7 Phd students and I am the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History, as well as a member of the editorial board of RADDAR (Mudac, Lausanne). 

Academic responsibilities

Director, Modern Interiors Research Centre

Qualifications

  • 1971 BA French Literature (University of Sussex)
  • 1975 PhD Theory and Design in the Age of Pop (Brighton Polytechnic)
  • Honarary MA University of the Creative Arts
  • Honorary Senior Fellow Royal College of Art

Research

Research student supervision

Main supervision

Other supervision

Publications

Number of items: 91.

Article

(2020) London Journal, 45(2), pp. 240-269. ISSN (print) 0305-8034

, , Kelley, Victoria and (2020) London Journal, 45(2), pp. 177-188. ISSN (print) 0305-8034

(2010) Interiors: Design, Architecture and Culture, 1(1-2), pp. 7-17. ISSN (print) 2041-9112

(2009) Design and culture: the journal of the Design Studies Forum, 1(2), pp. 231-233. ISSN (print) 1754-7075

(2009) Journal of design history, 22(2), pp. 191-193. ISSN (print) 0952-4649

(2009) Blueprint, p. 69. ISSN (print) 0268-4926

(2008) Journal of Interior Design, 34(1), v-xii. ISSN (print) 1071-7641

(2008) Journal of design history, 21(1), pp. 101-107. ISSN (print) 0952-4649

(2008) The Journal of Transport History, 29(1), pp. 131-135. ISSN (print) 0022-5266

(2008) Studies in the Decorative Arts, 16(1), pp. 156-158. ISSN (print) 1069-8825

Aynsley, Jeremy, Kirkham, Patricia and (2008) Studies in the Decorative Arts, 16(1), pp. 3-6. ISSN (print) 1069-8825

(2006) Journal of Design History, 19(3), pp. 263-266. ISSN (print) 0952-4649

(2005) Journal of Design History, 18(2), pp. 216-218. ISSN (print) 0952-4649

(2004) The Journal of Architecture, 9(4), pp. 413-417. ISSN (print) 1360-2365

(2003) Journal of design history, 16(1), pp. 63-76. ISSN (print) 0952-4649

(2000) Harvard Design Magazine(11), pp. 16-20. ISSN (print) 1093-4421

(1998) Journal of Design History, 11(1), pp. 59-69. ISSN (print) 0952-4649

Massey, Anne and (1985) Block(10), pp. 48-56. ISSN (print) 0143-3245

Book

(2020) Yale University Press. 224p. ISBN 9780300217801 (In Press)

Sparke, Penny , Brown, Patricia , Lara-Betancourt, Patricia , Lee, Gini and Taylor, Mark, eds. (2018) London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. 352p. ISBN 9781472568038

Lupkin, Paula and Sparke, Penny, eds. (2018) Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 211p. ISBN 9781138697690

Sparke, Penny and Fisher, Fiona, eds. (2016) Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 553p. (Routledge Companions) ISBN 9781138780507

Massey, Anne and Sparke, Penny, eds. (2013) Farnham, U.K. : Ashgate. 216p. ISBN 9781409439448

Black, Jonathan , Falkner, David , Fisher, Fiona , Lloyd, Fran , Preston, Rebecca and Sparke, Penny, eds. (2013) London, U.K. : Philip Wilson. 211p. ISBN 9781781300053

Andersson, Norbert and [Contributor] (2009) Stockholm, Sweden : Infotain & Infobooks. 152p. ISBN 9789170032806

Sparke, Penny , Massey, Anne , Keeble, Trevor and Martin, Brenda, eds. (2009) Oxford, U.K. : Berg. 311p. ISBN 9781847882882

Miller, R. Craig, and (2009) London, U.K. : Merrell Publishers Ltd. 271p. ISBN 9781858943404

(2009) New York, U.S.A. : Museum of Modern Art. 144p. (MoMA Design Series) ISBN 9788874394920

(2009) London, U.K. : Quadrille Publishing Limited. 256p. ISBN 9781844007530

(2008) London, U.K. : Reaktion Books. 240p. ISBN 9781861893727

Sparke, Penny , Martin, Brenda and Keeble, Trevor, eds. (2006) London : Routledge. 196p. ISBN 9780415374705

(2005) New York, USA : Acanthus Press. 372p. ISBN 0926494279

McKellar, Susie and Sparke, Penny, eds. (2004) Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. 218p. ISBN 0719067294

(2004) 2nd ed. London, UK : Routledge. 280p. ISBN 0415263352

Martin, Brenda and Sparke, Penny, eds. (2003) London, UK : Routledge. 178p. ISBN 0415284481

(2002) London, UK : Mitchell Beazley. 256p. ISBN 1840004037

(1995) London, U.K. : Pandora. 275p. ISBN 0044409230

Book Section

, and (2023) In: Marinic, Gregory, (ed.) The interior urbanism theory reader. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. ISBN 9781138336308 (In Press)

(2022) In: O'Mahoney, Claire I. R., (ed.) In the modern age. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 89-109. (A cultural history of furniture, 6) ISBN 9781472577887

(2021) In: Mcguirk, Justin, (ed.) Charlotte Perriand : the modern life. London, U.K. : Design Museum Publishing. pp. 130-157. ISBN 9781872005522

(2020) In: Lasc, Anca I , Schneiderman, Deborah , Suh, Keena , Tehve, Karin , Winton, Alexa G and Zieve, Karyn, (eds.) Interior provocations : history, theory and practice of autonomous interiors. New York, U.S. : Routledge. pp. 233-243. ISBN 9780367418489

(2018) In: Lupkin, Paula and Sparke, Penny, (eds.) Shaping the American interior : structures, contexts and practices. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 47-58. ISBN 9781138697690

(2018) In: Kravis Design Center, (ed.) Industrial design in the modern age. New York, U.S. : Rizzoli Electa. pp. 12-44. ISBN 9780847862405

(2018) In: Quinn, Malcolm , Beech, David , Lehnert, Michael , Tulloch, Carol and Wilson, Stephen, (eds.) The persistence of taste : art, museums and everyday life after Bourdieu. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 331-344. (Culture, Economy and the Social) ISBN 9781138670983

(2016) In: Sparke, Penny and Fisher, Fiona, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 186-196. ISBN 9781138780507

(2016) In: Hanks, David A, (ed.) 100 designs for a modern world. New York, USA : Skira Rizzoli. pp. 9-17. ISBN 9780847848324

(2015) In: Potvin, John, (ed.) Oriental interiors: design, identity, space. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 203-218. ISBN 9781472596635

and (2015) In: Breward, Christopher , Fisher, Fiona and Wood, Ghislaine, (eds.) British design : tradition and modernity after 1948. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 15-24. ISBN 9781472505378

(2014) In: Lees-Maffei, Grace, (ed.) Made in Italy: rethinking a century of Italian design. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780857853882

(2014) In: De Roode, Ingeborg, (ed.) Marcel Wanders: pinned up, 25 years of design. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Stedelijk Museum. pp. 50-55. ISBN 9789491727283

(2014) In: Lees-Maffei, Grace, (ed.) Iconic designs: 50 stories about 50 things. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Visual Arts. pp. 134-137. ISBN 9780857853523

(2013) In: Forest, Dominique, (ed.) L'Art du design de 1945 a nos jours. Paris, France : Citadelles & Mazenod. ISBN 9782850885624

(2013) In: Forest, Dominique, (ed.) L'Art du design de 1945 a nos jours. Paris, France : Citadelles & Mazenod. ISBN 9782850885624

(2013) In: Forest, Dominique, (ed.) L'Art du design de 1945 a nos jours. Paris, France : Citadelles & Mazenod. ISBN 9782850885624

(2013) In: Black, Jonathan , Falkner, David , Fisher, Fiona , Lloyd, Fran , Preston, Rebecca and Sparke, Penny, (eds.) The Picker House and collection: a late 1960's home for art and design. London, U.K. : Philip Wilson. pp. 47-70. ISBN 9781781300053

Penner, Barbara and (2013) In: Massey, Anne and Sparke, Penny, (eds.) Biography, identity and the modern interior. Farnham, U.K. : Ashgate Publishing Ltd. pp. 23-35. ISBN 9781409439448

, and (2012) In: Bonett, Helena , Holt, Ysanne and Munday, Jennifer, (eds.) The Camden Town Group in context. London, U.K. : Tate.

(2012) In: Breward, Christopher and Wood, Ghislaine, (eds.) British design from 1948: innovation in the modern age. London, U.K. : V&A Publishing. pp. 120-137. ISBN 9781851776740

(2012) In: Savolainen, Jukka and Svenskberg, Aila, (eds.) Builders of the future: Finnish design 1945-67. Helsinki, Finland : Designmuseo. pp. 8-19. ISBN 9789529878802

(2011) In: Galloway, Stephen and Orr, Lynn Federle, (eds.) The cult of beauty: the aesthetic movement 1860-1900. London, U.K. : V&A Publishing. pp. 124-133. ISBN 9781851776283

(2011) In: Kleinman, Kent, (ed.) After taste: expanded practice in interior design. New York, U.S.A. : Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781616890261

(2010) In: Mattsson, Helena and Wallenstein, Sven-Olov, (eds.) Swedish modernism: architecture, consumption and the welfare state. London, U.K. : Black Dog Publishing Limited. pp. 112-121. ISBN 9781906155988

(2010) In: Myzelev, Alla and Potvin, John, (eds.) Fashion, interior design and the contours of modern identity. London, U.K. : Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 205-224. ISBN 9780754669159

(2009) In: Aynsley, Jeremy and Atkinson, Harriet, (eds.) The Banham lectures: essays on designing the future. Oxford, U.K. : Berg. pp. 127-141. ISBN 9781847883025

(2009) In: Sparke, Penny , Massey, Anne , Keeble, Trevor and Martin, Brenda, (eds.) Designing the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. Oxford, U.K. : Berg. pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781847882882

(2009) In: Sparke, Penny , Massey, Anne , Keeble, Trevor and Martin, Brenda, (eds.) Designing the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. Oxford, U.K. : Berg. pp. 67-78. ISBN 9781847882882

(2009) In: Sparke, Penny , Massey, Anne , Keeble, Trevor and Martin, Brenda, (eds.) Designing the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. Oxford, U.K. : Berg. pp. 146-158. ISBN 9781847882882

(2009) In: Sparke, Penny , Massey, Anne , Keeble, Trevor and Martin, Brenda, (eds.) Designing the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. Oxford, U.K. : Berg. pp. 183-193. ISBN 9781847882882

(2009) In: Candlin, Fiona and Guins, Raiford, (eds.) The object reader. London, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 480-482. ISBN 9780415452304

(2008) In: Alfoldy, Sandra and Helland, Janice, (eds.) Craft, space and interior design, 1855-2005. Aldershot, U.K. : Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 123-138. ISBN 9780754657064

(2008) In: Black, Jonathan and Martin, Brenda, (eds.) Dora Gordine; sculptor, artist, designer. London, UK : Philip Wilson. pp. 145-161. ISBN 9780856676444

(2006) In: Labaco, Ronald T., (ed.) Ettore Sottsass: architect and designer. London, UK : Merrell Publishers. pp. 11-31. ISBN 1858943205

(2004) In: McKellar, Susie and Sparke, Penny, (eds.) Interior design and identity. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. pp. 72-91. (Studies in design) ISBN 0719067286

(2003) In: Martin, Brenda and Sparke, Penny, (eds.) Women's places: architecture and design 1860-1960. London, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 47-68. ISBN 0415284481

(2003) In: Martin, Brenda and Sparke, Penny, (eds.) Women鈥檚 places: architecture and design 1860-1960. London, U.K. : Routledge. pp. ix-xx. ISBN 041528449x

(2001) In: Baranski, Zygmunt G. and West, Rebecca J., (eds.) The Cambridge companion to modern Italian culture. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. pp. 265-281. (Cambridge companions to literature) ISBN 9780521550345

(2000) In: Albus, Volker , Kras, Reyer and Woodham, Jonathan M., (eds.) Icons of design!: the 20th century. Munich, Germany : Prestel Verlag. pp. 130-131. ISBN 3791323067

(2000) In: Albus, Volker , Kras, Reyer and Woodham, Jonathan M., (eds.) Icons of design!: the 20th century. Munich, Germany : Prestel Verlag. pp. 134-135. ISBN 3791323067

(2000) In: Nichols, Sarah, (ed.) Aluminum by design. Pittsburgh, U.S. : Carnegie Museum of Art. pp. 112-139. ISBN 0810967219

(2000) In: Albus, Volker , Kras, Reyer and Woodham, Jonathan M., (eds.) Icons of design!: the 20th century. Munich, Germany : Prestel Verlag. pp. 16-17. ISBN 3791323067

(2000) In: Albus, Volker , Kras, Reyer and Woodham, Jonathan M., (eds.) Icons of design!: the 20th century. Germany, Muich : Prestel Verlag. pp. 44-45. ISBN 3791323067

(2000) In: Albus, Volker , Kras, Reyer and Woodham, Jonathan M., (eds.) Icons of design!: the 20th century. Munich, Germany : Prestel Verlag. pp. 144-145. ISBN 3791323067

(2000) In: Albus, Volker , Kras, Reyer and Woodham, Jonathan M., (eds.) Icons of design!: the 20th century. Munich, Germany : Prestel Verlag. pp. 88-89. ISBN 3791323067

and (2000) In: Kirkham, Pat, (ed.) Women designers in the USA 1900-2000; diversity and difference. New Haven, USA : Yale University Press. pp. 305-316. ISBN 0300093314

(1996) In: Stritzler-Levine, Nina, (ed.) Josef Frank, architect and designer: an alternative vision of the modern home. New York, U.S.A : Yale University Press. pp. 118-127. ISBN 0300068999

Conference or Workshop Item

(2014) In: Society of Architectural Historians 67th Annual Conference; 09-13 Apr 2014, Austin, Texas, U.S.. (Unpublished)

and (2014) In: IDEC 2014 Annual Conference; 6-10 Mar 2014, New Orleans, U.S.A.. (Unpublished)

(2009) In: Design for the future - the future of design; 03 - 04 Jun 2009, Umea, Sweden. (Unpublished)

(2008) In: Sculpture in the home; 05 Dec 2008, Leeds, U.K..

[Interviewer] and Simmons, Paul [Interviewee] (2008) In: From atoms to patterns; 24 Apr-10 Aug 2008, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

[Interviewee] and Mom, Gijs [Interviewer] (2007) In: 5th jubilee conference on the history of transport, traffic & mobility: heritage & design; 25-28 Oct 2007, Helmond, The Netherlands. (Unpublished)

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