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With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain; Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade; labor; and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform; Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes; reformers pioneered schools of design; copyright protections; and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares; most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum; predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum; which stands today as home to the worldrsquo;s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegelrsquo;s identification of the significant links between markets and museums; and between economics and aesthetics; amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation.Drawing on a wide range of sources; including museum guidebooks; design manuals; illustrated newspapers; pattern books; and government reports; Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design; the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright; the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace; the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums; and the working men of London who critiqued the cityrsquo;s art and design collectionsmdash;all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and; in the process; to refashion Londonrsquo;s public culture.