Making Space

As featured in ELLE Decor, Architectural Digest, and Wallpaper

‘A wide-ranging look at a topic truly hiding in plain sight.’ –1stDibs Introspective

‘[One of] the best design book releases this season.’ – Architectural Digest

‘Asserts the significance of interior design, celebrating women who shaped the spaces we live in.’ – Wallpaper

‘From Dorothy Draper to Brigette Romanek and Roisin Lafferty, Making Space celebrates over 250 female interior designers.’ – ELLE Decor

‘Will entertain and inspire.’ – Cottages and Gardens

‘Illuminating.’ – New York Weekly Times

‘Explores how the private nature of interiors has allowed women to be extraordinarily innovative during times when they had been otherwise overlooked.’ – Bookpage, STARRED review

‘A joyful and necessary read.’ – ELLE Decoration

‘This book is worth buying for the forward alone, but it also introduces you to a world of female interior designers.’ – Living etc

‘Asserts the significance of interior design, celebrating women who shaped the spaces we live in.’ – Wallpaper*

‘Making Space makes it clear that interior space is never neutral: it is always shaped by the people who design and inhabit it.’ – Chapter

‘A decidedly vibrant and informative addition to any decorative scheme.’ – The Modern House

‘Spanning styles, decades, and disciplines, it celebrates the visionaries who defined — and continue to define — how we live beautifully.’ – IIDA

‘A must have for the decor minded.’ – Real Simple

‘[Dr. Jane Hall] highlights figures who advanced the field in powerful ways… bring[ing] long-overdue attention to their achievements and affirm[ing] their role alongside male counterparts in shaping the built world.’ – Galerie Magazine

‘A testament to the incredible work women have done designing every square inch of residential – and commercial – spaces during the 20th and 21st centuries.’ – Intelligent Collector

‘Visionaries.’ – HURS

‘A who’s who of powerhouse female designers.’ – House & Home

Dr. Jane Hall is the inaugural recipient of the British Council Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship (2013) and a founding member of the Turner Prize winning architecture collective Assemble. Jane completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art where her research considered the legacy of modernist architects in Brazil and the UK in the immediate postwar period. She is a Bye-Fellow at King’s College, the University of Cambridge (2024- ), specialising in the intersections of gender and architecture and the author of two books, Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women (2019) and Woman Made (2021).

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