Judy attfield biography

British design historian (1937–2006)

Judith (Judy) Attfield (1937 – December 2006)^[1][2] was a British design historian who specialized in the feminist approach towards design and design history as well as the cultural values of everyday design.^[1][3] An obituary describes her as "one of the pioneers of contemporary material culture studies who did so much to demonstrate the value of this approach".^[3]

Biography and research

Attfield worked as a designer before studying design history, gaining a master's degree from Middlesex Polytechnic, with a thesis on tufted carpets, followed by a PhD from the University of Brighton in 1992/3, researching the furniture industry, under the supervision of Suzette Worden and Daniel Miller.

She taught at the University of Brighton and Winchester School of Art, holding a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship in her retirement. She served on the editorial boards of the Journal o