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Select Publications

“Nylon for the Nonconformist.” Writing sample.

Forthcoming. “Pipsan Saarinen Swanson’s Life Model Home: Mediation and Mythmaking in Post-War America.” Journal of Design History.

“First-Class Curlers.” Material Intelligence, January 2025.

“Pipsan Saarinen Swanson: From Interior Decorating to Mass-Produced Furnishings, ca. 1929-1955.” PhD dissertation, Kingston University, 2022.

“Messages in a Bottle.” Jacobin, April 8, 2022.

“What Frank Lloyd Wright Can Teach Us About Comfort in the Office.” Hyperallergic, October 21, 2021.

“The Pursuit of Art and Professionalism: Dressmaking, Millinery, and Costume Design at Pratt Institute, 1888–1904.” Journal of Design History 31, no. 4 (November 2018): 305–32.

“Henry Martin Gasser (1909–1981).” In Bound for Posterity: Henry Martin Gasser (1909–1981). New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2017. Exhibition catalogue.

Essays on Gio Ponti chairs, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann cabinet and table, and Vittorio Zecchin chandelier. In 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design. Hong Kong: Phillips, November 27, 2016. Auction catalogue. 

Essay on Eugène Printz and Jean Dunand sideboard. In Design Evening. New York: Phillips, December 13, 2016. Auction catalogue.

“Introduction.” In Paintings from the Jack Warner Foundation. New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2016. Exhibition catalogue.

“Art in Everyday Life and the Do-It-Yourself Soviet Fashion of Nadezhda Lamanova.” MA thesis, Bard Graduate Center, 2014. (winner of the Design History Society Postgraduate Essay Prize)

Contributor, “Selected Biographies.” In An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915-1928, by Ann Marguerite Tartsinis. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2013.