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Stephen Bayley

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  • Author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, debater, and ex-curator, The Spectator
London, United Kingdom
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"Chintz!" If someone whispered that dreaded word in your ear at a 1980s cocktail party, you would know exactly what was meant. The party's host was on suburban vectors of style, with a tolerance for shoddy. And possibly aspired to have AN Wilson as an interior decorator. Wilson is a superb writer and commentator, but I would not want him choosing my soft-furnishings. Even if he delivered them in a wicker basket on his sit-up-and-beg bike.
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Before Manchesterism, there was Docklandsism

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Margaret Thatcher on the 39th floor of the Canary Wharf Tower at London’s Docklands, 1990 - Stephen Lock In an ecstasy of late capitalist optimism, Margaret Thatcher declared the East to be the new frontier and, lo, The London Docklands Development Corporation was established in 1981 to explore it. The optimism was infectious. In the mid-eighties I took a helicopter ride around Docklands, looking for a site where Terence Conran and I might build our Design Museum.
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There’s no going back to the Concorde glory days

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Nasa’s experimental quiet supersonic aircraft X-59 flies over California - REUTERS/David Swanson Until Nasa and Lockheed Martin claimed their experimental X-59 may lead to a son of Concorde, the notion of commercial supersonic travel had been in long retirement. While the performance of any future American supersonic transport will be less extreme than Concorde’s, it will certainly be quieter.
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