By Dr Catriona Quinn

Book Chapters

Quinn C, 2022, 'Margo's Interior design Practice 1928-60', in Margo Lewers: No Limits, Grasstree Press, Sydney, pp. 87 - 121

Quinn C, 2017, 'Custom-made for European Tastes: The Gerstl Furniture Story', in Hawcroft R (ed.), The Other Moderns Sydney's Forgotten European Design Legacy, UNSW Press, pp. 89 - 120

Quinn C, 1999, 'Furnishing a Doll's House: Fantasy or Reality?', in Dolls' Houses in Australia 1870-1950, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney, pp. 17 - 21

Edited Books

Broadbent J, (ed.), 1994, The Craft of Home Furnishing, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney

Quinn C, (ed.), 1993, Sydney Style: Marion Hall Best/Interior Designer, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney, file:///C:/Users/z5131180/Downloads/rmit-design-archives-journal-vol-5-no-2-2015%20(6).pdf

Quinn C; Mitchell L; Broadbent J, (eds.), 1990, Federation to Bungalow: Furnishings from Lyndhurst Resource Centre and Private Collections, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney

Journal articles

Quinn C, 2023, 'The Historical Literature of Australian Domestic Interior Design 1945-1975', Fabrications, 33, pp. 243 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2023.2295045

Quinn C, 2022, 'Re-evaluating Post-war Interior Design Practices through Client Histories: Loti Smorgon and Her Architect/Decorator Noel Coulson', Fabrications, 32, pp. 54 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2022.2087271

Quinn C, 2015, ''Adrian Feint's flowers and fishermen: the Lesley Godden collection'', Australiana, 37

Quinn C, 2015, 'Krimper in context: The place of provenance in design research', RMIT Design Archives Journal, 5, pp. 26 - 43, file:///C:/Users/z5131180/Downloads/rmit-design-archives-journal-vol-5-no-2-2015%20(6).pdf

Quinn C, 2014, 'The prism of provenance: the Landau collection of Krimper furniture', Australiana, 37, pp. 22 - 38

Quinn C, 2014, 'Noel Coulson and the Lipshut house, Toorak, 1959', RMIT Design Archives Journal, 4, pp. 14 - 23, file:///C:/Users/z5131180/Downloads/rmit-design-archives-journal-vol-4-no-2-2014%20(2).pdf

Quinn C, 1993, 'Sources of Style: Marion Hall Best's Early Career', Australian Antique Collector, pp. 48 - 52

Conference Presentations

Quinn C, 2022, '‘Rooms on View’: The Society of Interior Designers of Australia and transient spaces as tools of professional permanence 1953-1986', presented at Design and Transience: Design History Society Conference, Izmir, Turkey, 08 September 2022 - 10 September 2022, https://www.designandtransience.com/

Quinn C, 2022, '“How does it feel to fetch and carry for the architect? Postwar Australian interior designers and architects: open hostilities and concealed collaborations”', presented at Design History Society Hidden Histories: Gender in Design Virtual Seminar Spring 2022, Virtual, 07 April 2022 - 26 May 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuIhuEx3Kv4

Quinn C, 2021, 'Re-evaluating postwar interior design practices: Noel Coulson and his clients, 1948-1965', presented at Looking Inside Design: Invitational Workshop for Fabrications Harriet Edquist Festschrift Special Edition, Virtual, 25 June 2021 - 25 June 2021

Quinn C, 2019, '“European refugee clients and the Australian post war interior: the Korman family and Stanhill”', presented at The Australiana Society 40th Anniversary Symposium, State Library of New South Wales, 18 October 2019 - 18 October 2019

Quinn C, 2019, 'The Price of Good Taste: Social Status and Cultural Capital Exchange in the Design of a 1960s Sydney Interior', presented at The Cost of Design: Design History Society Annual Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, 05 September 2019 - 07 September 2019

Quinn C, 2019, 'What Margo Saw: 'Phantom Bauhaus' and the dangers of the dominant narrative. A case study of Margo Lewers' interwar interior design practice', presented at Why Study Modernism or the Bauhaus Today? The Power Institute and UTS Academic Roundtable, University of Technology, Sydney, 30 July 2019 - 30 July 2019

Quinn C, 2018, 'A Distinctive Blend: European Refugee Clients and the Australian Postwar Interior', presented at Design and Displacement: Design History Society Annual Conference, Parson's School of Design, New York, 06 September 2018 - 08 September 2018

Theses / Dissertations

Quinn C, 2021, Noel Coulson and Decor Associates (1950-1970): The role of the client in an alternative framework for understanding modernity in Australian interior design, UNSW Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/1970

Creative Written Works

Quinn C, 2022, O Noel Coulson Collection, RMIT Design Archives Collection Highlights, https://www.designcollection.rmit.edu.au/?p=rmit-archives-highlights#browse=enarratives.127

Quinn C, 2020, Society of Interior Designers of Australia: Rooms on view: SIDA’s exhibitions, 1953-1986, Society of Interior Designers of Australia Finding Aid, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums, https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/rooms-view-sidas-exhibitions-1953-1986

Quinn C, 2020, Society of Interior Designers of Australia: SIDA, Advocate and Caretaker for a New Profession, Society of Interior Designers of Australia Finding Aid, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums, https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/sida-advocate-and-caretaker-new-profession

Quinn C, 2020, The Society of Interior Designers of Australia: An Introduction to the Founding, role and objectives of SIDA, Society of Interior Designers of Australia Finding Aid, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums, https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/society-interior-designers-australia-sida

Quinn C, 2019, Book Review: Deborah Sugg-Ryan, Ideal Homes, 1918–39: Domestic design and suburban modernism (Manchester University Press 2018), Parlour: Gender, Equity, Architecture, Parlour.org, https://parlour.org.au/opinion-analysis/reviews/ideal-homes-1918-39-domestic-design-and-suburban-modernism/

Quinn C, 2007, 'Best, Marion Esdaile Hall (1905-1988)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne University Press, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/best-marion-esdaile-hall-12205

Quinn C, 1995, 'Sweetapple, Agnes Theodora (Dora) (1899-1987), Heritage: The National Women's Art Book, Craftsman House

Media

Lazzaro Rezende L; Quinn C, 2022, Design networks in / from / across Australia, Parlour: Gender, Equity, Architecture, Australia, https://parlour.org.au/parlour-live/parlour-lab/designing-histories-new-futures/

Quinn C, 2022, Designing Histories, New Futures, Parlour: Gender, Equity, Architecture, Australia, https://parlour.org.au/parlour-live/parlour-lab/designing-histories-new-futures/%20v

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