Dr Fiona Fisher
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston 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 Kingston University'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 (Kingston University, 2008)
- BA (Hons) Art, Architecture and Design History (Kingston University, 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
Inside London's railway termini, c.1870-1939
Fisher, Fiona, 2020, London Journal (45), 2pp 211-239, Published
Complex interior spaces in London, 1850-1930: introduction
Fisher, Fiona, Lara-Betancourt, Patricia, Kelley, Victoria and Sparke, Penny, 2020, London Journal (45), 2pp 177-188, Published
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, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (39), 1pp 5-21, Published
Kenneth Wood: modern Surrey houses of the 1950s and 1960s
Fisher, Fiona, 2015, Twentieth Century Society Journal, 12pp 156-171, Published
Presenting the perfect pint: drink and visual pleasure in late nineteenth-century London
Fisher, Fiona, 2012, Visual Resources (28), 4pp 324-339, Published
The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910
Fisher, Fiona, 2012, Journal of Design History (25), 4pp 427-429, Published
Exhibition as interior, interior as exhibition: spaces of display within and beyond the museum and gallery
(2025). UK: [Published]
The Routledge companion to design studies
(2016). Abingdon, U.K.: (Routledge) [Published]
The Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Public House in Bristol
Preston, Rebecca and Fisher, Fiona (2015). Online: [Published]
British design: tradition and modernity after 1948
(2015). London, U.K.: [Published]
Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968
Fisher, Fiona (2015). Abingdon, U.K.: (Routledge) [Published]
Picker House and collection: a late 1960s home for art and design
(2013). London, U.K.: [Published]
Performance, fashion and the modern interior: from the Victorians to today
(2011). Oxford, U.K.: [Published]
New interior identities: inhabiting London‘s railway stations, winter gardens, people‘s palaces, and department stores, 1830-1920
Sparke, Penny, Fisher, Fiona and Lara-Betancourt, Patricia (2023). In: Marinic, Gregory, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: [Published]
The stimulating atmosphere of the English public house, c.1945-75
Fisher, Fiona (2023). In: Marchand, Marie-Ève, Beaulieu, Benoit, Potvin, John, (eds.), Manchester, U.K.:pp 189-202 [Published]
A continuous landscape? Neighbourhood planning and the new "local" in post-war Bristol
Fisher, Fiona and Preston, Rebecca (2018). In: Sparke, Penny, Brown, Pat, Lara-Betancourt, Patricia, Lee, Gini, Taylor, Mark, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 168-179 [Published]
Brown, Eleanor Stockstrom McMillen (1890-1991)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 198-198 [Published]
Cliffe, Clarice (1899-1972)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 249-249 [Published]
Colefax, Lady Sibyl (1874-1950)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 258-259 [Published]
De Morgan, William Frend (1839-1917)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 342-342 [Published]
Draper, Dorothy Tuckerman (1889-1969)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 434-434 [Published]
Fowler, John (1906-77)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 36-36 [Published]
Hadley, Albert (1920-2012)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 127-128 [Published]
Hicks, David Nightingale (1929-98)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 149-150 [Published]
Ji┼Öičná, Eva (1939-)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 259-259 [Published]
Koppel, Henning (1918-81)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 292-293 [Published]
Lindberg, Frederick Stigurd (Stig) (1916-82)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 323-324 [Published]
McClelland, Nancy Vincent (1877-1959)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 364-365 [Published]
Mellor, David Rogerson (1930-2009)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 371-372 [Published]
Parish, Sister (Dorothy May Kinnicutt) (1910-94)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 35-36 [Published]
Queensberry Hunt (David Queensberry [1929-] and Martin Hunt [1942-])
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 132-133 [Published]
Regulating design: spaces and boundaries of the late nineteenth-century public house
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Sparke, Penny, Fisher, Fiona, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.:pp 421-432 [Published]
Robsjohn-Gibbings, Terence (1905-76)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 164-164 [Published]
Stabler, Harold (1872-1945)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 258-258 [Published]
Weil, Daniel (1953-)
Fisher, Fiona (2016). In: Edwards, Clive, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 410-410 [Published]
The spaces and places of British modernity
Sparke, Penny and Fisher, Fiona (2015). In: Breward, Christopher, Fisher, Fiona, Wood, Ghislaine, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 15-24 [Published]
The Picker House: a British house with an international outlook
Fisher, Fiona (2013). In: Black, Jonathan, Falkner, David, Fisher, Fiona, Lloyd, Fran, Preston, Rebecca, Sparke, Penny, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 13-46 [Published]
Viewing the early twentieth-century institutional interior through the pages of Living London
Fisher, Fiona (2013). In: Hamlett, Jane, Hoskins, Lesley, Preston, Rebecca, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 17-33 [Published]
Leisure interiors in the work of the Camden Town Group
Black, Jonathan, Fisher, Fiona and Sparke, Penny (2012). In: Bonett, Helena, Holt, Ysanne, Munday, Jennifer, (eds.), London, U.K.: [Published]
1940-1970
Fisher, Fiona (2011). In: Fisher, Fiona, Lara-Betancourt, Patricia, Keeble, Trevor, Martin, Brenda, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.:pp 137-144 [Published]
Privacy and supervision in the modernised public house, 1872-1902
Fisher, Fiona (2009). In: Sparke, Penny, Massey, Anne, Keeble, Trevor, Martin, Brenda, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.:pp 41-52 [Published]
"A place of public resort": the London Railway Terminal 1836-1914
Fisher, Fiona(2015). [Published]
The Picker House: charting the boundaries of British architectural and interior design practice in the 1960s
Fisher, Fiona and Sparke, Penny(2014). [Published]
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). [Published]
Kenneth Wood Associates: projects
Fisher, Fiona(2011). [Published]
Presenting the perfect pint: drinking and visual pleasure in late nineteenth century London
Fisher, Fiona(2011). [Published]
Viewing the institutional interior through the pages of Living London
Fisher, Fiona(2010). [Published]
Kenneth Wood - modern architecture for an art collector, the Stanley Picker House (1968) and other work
Fisher, Fiona(2009). [Published]
Glass politics: visual hierarchies in the late Victorian public house
Fisher, Fiona(2006). [Published]
Real place, imagined space? The artistic image as visual evidence
Fisher, Fiona(2005). [Published]
In public, in private: design and modernisation in the London public house, 1872-1902
Fisher, Fiona Elizabeth (2007), PhD thesis [Accepted/In press]
Space Electronic: Then and Now
Rossi, Catharine, Kelly, Ben and Fisher, Fiona (2014) [Published]
Kenneth Wood: a modernist in suburbia
Fisher, Fiona and Booth, Gilly (2012) [Published]