and his appreciation of the 'everyday' built environment. Sir JM Richards' Library consists of over 1500 volumes and contains all his own published work, plus books by leading artists and architectural writers including John Betjeman, John Piper, Osbert Lancaster, Nikolaus Pevsner, John Nash, Herbert Read and John Summerson. Crown Wallpaper Archive MoDA's Crown Wallpaper Collection consists of around 5,000 wallpaper albums and samples dating from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, donated to the museum by Crown Wallpapers in 1989. Along with the wallpapers of MoDA's Silver Studio Collection, this collection represents one of the country's finest bodies of non-elite wallpapers of the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries. The majority of the wallpapers held here were intended for the mass market, not for ‘high-end’ consumers, and can therefore be seen as a barometer of British taste over a long period. The Crown Wallpaper complements our other collections, locating the product in its domestic setting and placing it in the context of histories of consumption, in particular in relation to suburbia. MoDA also has a good selection of hand-printed wallpapers from the 1930s, by artists such as Edward Bawden, John Aldridge and Lawrence Scarfe. The Domestic Design Collection 1870–1960 This collection consists of over 4,000 books, journals, magazines and trade and retail catalogues relating to all aspects of home furnishing, household management, cookery, house building, DIY, home crafts and gardening. This is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in domestic furnishings, homecraft or other aspects of domestic life; it is also useful as visual reference for those interested in typography, graphic design, book design and so on. A particularly important element is the material relating to the growth of North London suburbia between around 1900 and 1939. It consists of posters, brochures and other publicity material produced by property developers, builders and estate agents. This material complements the other items relating to domestic decoration and furnishing from the same period. Around 2,000 books and catalogues were originally part of the Silver Studio Collection, accumulated and used by the designers as sources of visual reference. A further 1,000 or so items were collected by the former Art and Design Librarian of Hornsey College of Art during the 1980s. The remainder have been acquired by purchase or donation over many years. References External links Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture Architecture museums in the United Kingdom Domestic Art museums established