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The following is a selection of in-house publications that describe the museum, its collections, or refer to a specific exhibition. All of the publications can be obtained by post from the shop manager. Please email jknott@geffrye-museum.org.uk or telephone 020 7739 9893 for further information on payment and postage. Trade orders are welcome, please contact us for further details.
This beautifully illustrated new guidebook introduces the reader to the history of the museum and its collections, and presents a tour of the period rooms as well as highlighting the herb and period gardens.
56pp, fully illustrated in colour. Published 2008. £7.00
The paintings and drawings selected for this book, which accompany two major exhibitions at the Geffrye in 2007-8, provide a fascinating insight into the lives of the English urban middle classes. In bringing together works by Bell, Sickert, Weight, Hodgkin, Caulfield and Cooke as well as many by less familiar artists, Home and Garden advances the study of the urban middle classes in England and provides a significant resource for further research. With contributions by Judith Batalion, Charlotte Gere, Eleanor John and Christine Lalumia.
174pp, fully illustrated in colour. Published 2007. Hardback £30.00, Paperback £20.00. This catalogue was awarded joint runner up in The Art Newspaper & AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award 2007.
A History of the Geffrye Almshouses looks beyond the architecture of the building, erected in 1714 with money bequeathed to the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers by Sir Robert Geffrye, and examines the lives of elderly poor who lived here during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This generously illustrated account is enriched with anecdotes and excerpts from surviving records, providing a fascinating insight into the social context and domestic arrangements of the Geffrye pensioners.
64pp, colour and b/w photographs throughout. Published May 2005. £6.00
The paintings and drawings selected for this book, which accompanied a major exhibition at the Geffrye in 2003-4, provide a fascinating insight into the lives of the English urban middle classes. In bringing together works by Hogarth, Devis, Wilkie, Millais, Hicks and Tissot as well as many by less familiar artists, Home and Garden advances the study of the urban middle classes in England and provides a significant resource for further research. With contributions by Judith Batalion, David Dewing, Charlotte Gere, Eleanor John and Christine Lalumia.
207pp, fully illustrated in colour. Published 2003. Hardback £30.00. Please note that this is now out of print.
This glossy book uses as its basis the extensive research carried out for our annual Christmas exhibition, resulting in a fascinating exploration of Christmas customs and trends old and new.
49pp, many colour and b/w illustrations. Published 1997. £6.00
Published in association with Lund Humphries to accompany our 2000 exhibition on this contemporary furniture designer. Written by Catherine McDermott with contributions from Sir Terence Conran, Sheridan Coakley and Tom Dixon among others.
80pp, many colour photographs. Published 2000. £7.50
This book was produced as a result of the research carried out for our four 20th-century period room displays.
62pp, many colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Published 1998. £5.00
Published in the centenary year of his death, this book celebrates Wilde's association with the Aesthetic Movement. Examining the origins and development of the movement and its influence on the decorative arts, The House Beautiful traces the people with whom Wilde associated, the artists, architects and designers he admired and the houses and interiors by which he was influenced.
144pp, fully illustrated in colour and black and white. Published 2000. Hardback £14.99
Written by Tabitha Barber who curated our exhibition The Excellent Mrs Mary Beale in 1999, the 300th anniversary of the artist's death.
87pp, colour and b/w illustrations. Published 1999. £10.00
