Stephen Bayley
Stephen Bayley
Stephen Paul Bayleyis a British design critic, cultural critic, journalist and author...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth13 October 1951
design rich process
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.
antiques certain interest
I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.
believe people looks
I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior , I just can not believe that other people don't care.
shoes insecurity mechanic
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.
fashion hype gathering
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.
house process aspire
You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.
effort challenges britain
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.
role-models getting-older roles
That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.
wife cooking dinner
My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.
war political atmosphere
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
blood hands mind
I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.
men assumption tradition
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
furniture sometimes made
It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.