Penny Sparke is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK, and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre, the world's foremost centre of research into modern interiors.

Patricia Brown is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Landscape at Kingston University, UK. She was awarded the National Teaching Fellowship in 2004 and subsequently founded the Landscape Interface Studio.

Patricia Lara-Betancourt is a researcher at the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, UK. She is co-editor of Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail (2017) and Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today (2011).

Gini Lee is a landscape architect and interior designer. She is the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Mark Taylor is Professor of Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He has previously edited Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources (2013).