Introduction
I am a specialist in the history of the domestic interiors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the history of wallpapers.
I work as a freelance researcher, writer, lecturer and exhibition curator. As a consultant, I offer advice on the restoration of historic interiors. I am working on a PhD project on Homemaking and Material Culture in the 19th Century.
I am currently researching a group of photographs of a London villa, taken in 1878. I’m following all leads, wherever they take me, and have been very lucky so far the photographs turn out to be of the home of a very eccentric aristocrat, painter, writer, traveller and theatre designer.
Biography
Name: Lesley Hoskins
Education : MA (with distinction), Design History
Middlesex Polytechnic
Books: Editor, The Papered Wall: the history, patterns and techniques of wallpaper,
Thames & Hudson, new edition, 2005
Fifitestyle, Middlesex University Press, 2004
With Charlotte Gere, The House Beautiful. Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Interior,
Lund Humphries, 2000
Living Rooms. 20th-Century Interiors at the Geffrye Museum , Geffrye Museum ,
1998
Editor, The Papered Wall: the history, patterns and techniques of wallpaper,
Thames & Hudson, 1994
Catalogue of Block-printed Wallpapers, Sanderson, 1993
With Mark Turner, The Silver Studio of Design, Webb & Bower, 1988
Essays: ‘William Morris’ in The Origin of Things; sketches, models, prototypes, ed., Thimo
te Duits, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen/Nai, 2003
‘Owen Jones’ in the Dictionary of National Biography, OUP, 2004
The Silver Studio (1880-1963): a design practice at work, MoDA/Middlesex
University, 2001,
‘The Wallpapers of William Morris’ in William Morris, 1834-1896, catalogue of
exhibition at V&A, 1996
‘Morris & Co.’ and ‘Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd.’ in The Encyclopedia of Interior Design, ed. J. Banham, 1997
‘The Industry’ in a A Popular Art: British Wallpapers 1930-1960, Middlesex
Polytechnic, 1989
‘Interior Decoration and Art Nouveau’ in Art Nouveau Designs from the Silver
Studio Collection, Middlesex Polytechnic, 1986
Articles & reviews: various, published in magazines such as Oral History Journal, Art Quarterly,
World of Interiors, Traditional Interior Decoration, World of Antiques, and
Wallpaper History Society Review.
Conference & ‘ Representation in the exhibited space’ at ‘The Modern Period Room’,
symposia conference Dorich House, Kingston University 2003
papers
Invited speaker at the launch symposium for Centre for the Study of the
Domestic Interior
Lectures: many, eg, ‘William Morris Wallpapers in Context’, Cooper-Hewitt Museum , New
York , October 1996, ‘At Home in the Edwardian Living Room’, Geffrye Museum ,
March 1999; ‘Wallpapers in the Victorian Home", Victorian Society, November
2000; ‘Patterns on the Wall’, Art Workers Guild, 2003 , ‘ Wallpaper In
The Home 1870s -1960s’, V&A Study Day 2003
Exhibitions: various, including
How to Live in a Flat: Modern Living in the 1930s , MoDA, 2003
The Silver Studio Then & Now , MoDA, 2001
Exploring Interiors: domestic decoration 1900-1960, MoDA, 2000
Contact details
Work tel: 0781 543 3458
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