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Lily Goddard

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Lily Goddard
Born(1916-03-14)14 March 1916
Vienna,Austria
Died7 March 2002(2002-03-07)(aged 85)
Alma materVienna School of Art
Known forTextile design

Lily GoddardFRSAFCSD(1916 – 2002) was an Austrian textile designer.[1]She attended theVienna School of Artwhere she was taught by, among others, ProfessorErnst Gombrich,Professor Joseph Hoffmann and Professor Czisek.[2]

She joined theChartered 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),

Goddard was granted Fellowship of the CSD in 1976. Part of her huge collection of designs, manufactured samples and her cuttings books are housed in theVictoria and Albert Museum,London (see link below). She was made a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Artsin 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 oncoal holecovers and otherstreet furnitureand three volumes of poetry.

She married Sidney in 1950 who died in 1976. She died in March 2002 leaving a son, Larry and a granddaughter, Stephanie.

Publications

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  • Goddard, Lily (1979).Coalhole Rubbings: the Story of an Artefact in our Streets.Midas Books.ISBN0859361896.
  • Goddard, Lily (1983).Nostalgia without Tears: Reflections in prose and verse.Lily Goddard.ISBN0950890901.
  • Goddard, Lily (1987).The Whispering Heart: Poems.Lily Goddard.ISBN095089091X.
  • Goddard, Lily (1990).Twilight: Poems.Spellmount Publishers Ltd.ISBN0946771081.
  • Goddard, Lily (2020).Carrie; the story of a survivor.Amazon.ISBN979-8590578276.

References

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  1. ^see the magazine of theChartered Society of Designers- January 2003 for obituary from where this article was taken
  2. ^Coalhole Rubbings, Lily Goddard
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