Lily Goddard

Lily Goddard ^[1] was an Austrian textile designer born March 14, 1916, in Vienna. She attended the Vienna School of Art where she was taught by, among others, Professor Ernst Gombrich, Professor Joseph Hoffmann and Professor Czisek.^[2]

She joined the Chartered Society of Designers (then the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers) in 1950, being very active in the 1960s and 1970s in the Fashion and Textiles Group. She specialised in printed textiles, paper products and carpets and her clients included Liberty textiles, Deeko paperware, Crossley carpets and Sanderson wallpapers. Several examples are available online at VADS - the online resource for visual arts (link below),

She was granted Fellowship of the CSD in 1976. Part of her huge collection of designs, manufactured samples and her cuttings books are housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1978.

She taught art at primary, secondary and further education levels and lectured extensively in England and Ireland.

She wrote and published four books, one on coal hole covers and other street furniture and three volumes of poetry.

She married Sidney in 1950 who died in 1972. She died in March 2002 leaving a son, Larry and a granddaughter, Stephanie.

Bibliography

Coalhole Rubbings, 1979, Midas Books
Nostalgia without Tears, 1983, Lily Goddard
The Whispering Heart, 1987, Lily Goddard
Twilight, 1990, Spellmount

External links

Notes

↑ see the magazine of the Chartered Society of Designers - January 2003 for obituary from where this article was taken
↑ Coalhole Rubbings, Lily Goddard

Textile designers

18th century	Anna Maria Garthwaite William Kilburn

19th century	John Henry Dearle William Morris Charles Voysey

Early 20th century	Bernard Adeney Ethel Mairet Silver Studio

Mid 20th century	Laura Ashley Helen Berman Lucienne Day Ada Dietz Elenhank Alexander Girard Joan Glass Viola Gråsten Maija Isola Bernat Klein Jack Lenor Larsen Dorothy Liebes Marimekko Mario Prassinos Ernest Race Ruth Reeves Astrid Sampe Franco Scalamandré May Smith Marianne Straub Thelma Johnson Streat Mary White

Late 20th century	Angela Adams Hiroshi Awatsuji Bronwyn Bancroft Celia Birtwell Valerie Campbell-Harding Georgina von Etzdorf Lily Goddard Hans Krondahl Meera Mehta Vuokko Nurmesniemi Graziela Preiser Siona Shimshi Sue Timney Up Tied

Early 21st century	Inside Outside Kvadrat Campion Platt

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