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.
Curator/Researcher
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.
Fisher, Fiona (2020) Inside London's railway termini, c.1870-1939. London Journal, 45(2), pp. 211-239. ISSN (print) 0305-8034
Fisher, Fiona, Lara-Betancourt, Patricia, Kelley, Victoria and Sparke, Penny (2020) Complex interior spaces in London, 1850-1930 : introduction. London Journal, 45(2), pp. 177-188. ISSN (print) 0305-8034
Fisher, Fiona and Preston, Rebecca (2019) Light, airy and open : the design and use of the suburban public-house garden in England between the wars. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 39(1), pp. 5-21. ISSN (print) 1460-1176
Fisher, Fiona (2015) Kenneth Wood : modern Surrey houses of the 1950s and 1960s. Twentieth Century Society Journal(12), pp. 156-171.
Fisher, Fiona (2012) Presenting the perfect pint: drink and visual pleasure in late nineteenth-century London. Visual Resources, 28(4), pp. 324-339. ISSN (print) 0197-3762
Fisher, Fiona (2012) The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910. Journal of Design History, 25(4), pp. 427-429. ISSN (print) 0952-4649
Sparke, Penny and Fisher, Fiona, eds. (2016) The Routledge companion to design studies. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 553p. (Routledge Companions) ISBN 9781138780507
Breward, Christopher , Fisher, Fiona and Wood, Ghislaine, eds. (2015) British design: tradition and modernity after 1948. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. 221p. ISBN 9781472505378
Fisher, Fiona (2015) Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948-1968. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 182p. (Routledge Research in Architecture) ISBN 9780415823548
Black, Jonathan , Falkner, David , Fisher, Fiona , Lloyd, Fran , Preston, Rebecca and Sparke, Penny, eds. (2013) Picker House and collection: a late 1960s home for art and design. London, U.K. : Philip Wilson. 211p. ISBN 9781781300053
Fisher, Fiona , Lara-Betancourt, Patricia , Keeble, Trevor and Martin, Brenda, eds. (2011) Performance, fashion and the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. Oxford, U.K. : Berg. 352p. ISBN 9781847887818
Fisher, Fiona and Preston, Rebecca (2018) A continuous landscape? Neighbourhood planning and the new "local" in post-war Bristol. In: Sparke, Penny , Brown, Pat , Lara-Betancourt, Patricia , Lee, Gini and Taylor, Mark, (eds.) Flow: interior, landscape and architecture in the era of liquid modernity. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. pp. 168-179. ISBN 9781472568038
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Brown, Eleanor Stockstrom McMillen (1890-1991). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 198-198. 1 ISBN 9781472521545
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Cliffe, Clarice (1899-1972). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 249-249. 1 ISBN 9781472521545
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Colefax, Lady Sibyl (1874-1950). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 258-259. 1 ISBN 9781472521545
Fisher, Fiona (2016) De Morgan, William Frend (1839-1917). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 342-342. 1 ISBN 9781472521545
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Draper, Dorothy Tuckerman (1889-1969). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 434-434. 1 ISBN 9781472521545
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Fowler, John (1906-77). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 36-36. 2 ISBN 9781472521552
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Hadley, Albert (1920-2012). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 127-128. 2 ISBN 9781472521552
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Hicks, David Nightingale (1929-98). In: Edwards, clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 149-150. 2 ISBN 9781472521552
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Jiřičná, Eva (1939-). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 259-259. 2 ISBN 9781472521552
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Koppel, Henning (1918-81). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 292-293. 2 ISBN 9781472521552
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Lindberg, Frederick Stigurd (Stig) (1916-82). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 323-324. 2 ISBN 9781472521552
Fisher, Fiona (2016) McClelland, Nancy Vincent (1877-1959). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 364-365. 2 ISBN 9781472521552
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Mellor, David Rogerson (1930-2009). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 371-372. 2 ISBN 9781472521552
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Parish, Sister (Dorothy May Kinnicutt) (1910-94). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 35-36. 3 ISBN 9781472521569
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Queensberry Hunt (David Queensberry [1929-] and Martin Hunt [1942-]). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 132-133. 3 ISBN 9781472521569
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Regulating design : spaces and boundaries of the late nineteenth-century public house. In: Sparke, Penny and Fisher, Fiona, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 421-432. ISBN 9781138780507
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Robsjohn-Gibbings, Terence (1905-76). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 164-164. 3 ISBN 9781472521569
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Stabler, Harold (1872-1945). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 258-258. 3 ISBN 9781472521569
Fisher, Fiona (2016) Weil, Daniel (1953-). In: Edwards, Clive, (ed.) The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 410-410. 3 ISBN 9781472521569
Sparke, Penny and Fisher, Fiona (2015) The spaces and places of British modernity. 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
Fisher, Fiona (2013) The Picker House: a British house with an international outlook. 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. 13-46. ISBN 9781781300053
Fisher, Fiona (2013) Viewing the early twentieth-century institutional interior through the pages of Living London. In: Hamlett, Jane , Hoskins, Lesley and Preston, Rebecca, (eds.) Residential institutions in Britain, 1725-1970: inmates and environments. London, U.K. : Pickering & Chatto. pp. 17-33. ISBN 9781848933668
Black, Jonathan, Fisher, Fiona and Sparke, Penny (2012) Leisure interiors in the work of the Camden Town Group. In: Bonett, Helena , Holt, Ysanne and Munday, Jennifer, (eds.) The Camden Town Group in context. London, U.K. : Tate.
Fisher, Fiona (2011) 1940-1970. In: Fisher, Fiona , Lara-Betancourt, Patricia , Keeble, Trevor and Martin, Brenda, (eds.) Performance, fashion and the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. Oxford, U.K. : Berg. pp. 137-144. ISBN 9781847887825
Fisher, Fiona (2009) Privacy and supervision in the modernised public house, 1872-1902. 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. 41-52. ISBN 9781847882882
Fisher, Fiona (2015) "A place of public resort" : the London Railway Terminal 1836-1914. In: "How We Live, and How We Might Live": Design and the Spirit of Critical Utopianism; 11-13 Sep 2015, San Francisco, U.S.. (Unpublished)
Fisher, Fiona and Sparke, Penny (2014) The Picker House: charting the boundaries of British architectural and interior design practice in the 1960s. In: IDEC 2014 Annual Conference; 6-10 Mar 2014, New Orleans, U.S.A.. (Unpublished)
Fisher, Fiona and Preston, Rebecca (2013) A living green background to the works of art: the site and gardens of a late 1960s home for art and design. In: History of Gardens and Landscapes; 17 May 2013, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Fisher, Fiona (2011) Kenneth Wood Associates: projects. In: Picker One; 27 Jun 2011, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Fisher, Fiona (2011) Presenting the perfect pint: drinking and visual pleasure in late nineteenth century London. In: Food and Drink: their Social, Political and Cultural Histories; 15-17 Jun 2011, Preston, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Fisher, Fiona (2010) Viewing the institutional interior through the pages of Living London. In: Inhabiting institutions in Britain 1700-1950; 14-15 Sep 2010, London, U.K..
Fisher, Fiona (2009) Kenneth Wood - modern architecture for an art collector, the Stanley Picker House (1968) and other work. In: 'Suburban modernity' - modern homes in Surrey; 19 Feb 2009, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Fisher, Fiona (2006) Glass politics: visual hierarchies in the late Victorian public house. In: Futures: art, architecture and design histories for the twenty-first century; 01 Mar 2006, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Fisher, Fiona (2005) Real place, imagined space? The artistic image as visual evidence. In: Locating Design: The Design History Society Annual Conference; 07 - 09 Sep 2005, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Rossi, Catharine [Curator], Kelly, Ben [Designer] and Fisher, Fiona [Research team member] (2014) Space Electronic : Then and Now. 14th International Architecture Exhibition. .
Fisher, Fiona and Preston, Rebecca (2015) The Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Public House in Bristol. (Project Report) Online : Historic England. 521 p.
Fisher, Fiona [Creator] and Booth, Gilly [Creator] (2012) Kenneth Wood: a modernist in suburbia. (Short Film). Master - First Edition.
Fisher, Fiona Elizabeth (2007) In public, in private : design and modernisation in the London public house, 1872-1902. (PhD thesis), Kingston University, .
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