Stephen Bayley design guru architect writer and latterly Grumpy Old Man pictured at The Lasts Tuesday Society, Mare St London E8
Picture By: Nick Cunard / Retna Pictures - Stephen Bayley design guru architect writer and latterly Grumpy Old Man pictured at The Lasts Tuesday Society, Mare St London E8 where he gave a talk about what he most disliked about Xmas. His main objection was to the awful displays of kitchness it brought out in people both in the aesthetic and emotive sense. SB has worked as a museum curator. In the 1970s he was a lecturer in the history of art at The University of Kent, but first became prominent in the 1980s as an authority on style and design when Sir Terence Conran chose him to head up the Boilerhouse Project, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the V&A, in London. This was Britain's first permanent exhibition of design and it was host to more than 20 exhibitions in five years including Ford Motor Co, Sony, Issey Miyake, Coca Cola and Taste. He then became Chief Executive of the Design Museum in London which grew out of the Boilerhouse Project. In 1989 he was made a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's top artistic honour, by the French Minister of Culture and in 1995 he was Periodical Publishers' Association Columnist of the Year. - 15 December 2009 80214 NCD - *World Rights*
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