Articles Written by:    STEPHEN BAYLEY     

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Plug into the future of driving

The language of car design depends on beliefs that will eventually be redundant, if not actually stigmatised. We have a four-wheel-drive to conquer hills and fields, a mid-engined supercar to drive across Europe at 300kmh. Not much longer, ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ferrari,  Daimler

Rafayel on the Left Bank

It was, most unusually, the press release that I noticed. Writing about architecture for an international paper means a daily inundation of hysterical claims from demented flaks, earning tiny fees by greasing the client's huge vanity with preposterous ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Harold Wilson,  Vauxhall,  Richard Meier,  Thom Mayne,  John Betjeman

A temple of light and space

Modernity or bust: the new Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Photograph: Martin Argles Oxford familiars over the years have got to know the Ashmolean as a forbidding place. In muscular early Victorian classical style, it was a monument to severe learning and ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Guardian Unlimited,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Bank of England

Boys keep swinging

I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be: Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed will break all records in pop nostalgia. The National Portrait Gallery's curator of photographs, Terence Pepper, was astonished by the success of his Beatles on the Balcony show in ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Oct 2009
Related Topics: David Bailey,  Ray Davies,  Twinkle (musician),  John Lennon,  Pete Townshend

Sisters, Unhook!

One strange week in September Germaine Greer, the Martha Stewart of orthodox (not to say reactionary) feminism, invited the planet's women to crash my website by sending photos of their "unsupported breasts". The plan was to disabuse me of my alleged ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Huffington Post,  5 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Jenni Murray,  Germaine Greer,  Martha Stewart,  Oscar Niemeyer,  BBC

Steven Bayley: 'My book is not sexist'

Bayley's book examines, among other things, the Ford Edsel; its poor sales were blamed on its 'vulva-like' radiator grille. Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy There's a theory among antiquarians that the plan of the Christian church is a diagram of ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Jenni Murray,  Virgin Mary,  Steve Jones,  Norman Foster

BMW taps into the British psyche

History repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce ... then as the Mini. An announcement that two new versions of Britain’s most successful car will soon be produced at BMW’s Cowley plant offers coruscating insights into national identity, consumer ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Times Online,  3 Sep 2009
Related Topics: BMW,  Audi

Beauty is boring. Let’s hear it for ugliness

Who dares speak in favour of ugliness? Let me give it a try. Ugliness is a necessary part of civilisation. Without it, no concept of beauty could exist. Indeed, if everything were beautiful ... then nothing would be. Perfection is, I am sorry to report, ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Times Online,  1 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Robert A. M. Stern,  Serge Gainsbourg

This chair has still got legs

The original Thonet No.14, right, and the Muji version of the chair. Photograph: PR Designers want to do chairs the way writers want to do novels. There's always a lonely drawing or an unread manuscript lurking somewhere. But why bother? The greatest ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Guardian Unlimited,  22 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Can the Porsche mythology survive under VW?

Incestuous couplings, blood feuds, betrayals, ambition, hubris, suicide by fire, collision of egos, power struggles, revenge, retribution, tragedy, defeat, reconciliation of opposites, symbols of sex and power. Is this Wagner’s Ring Cycle? No, it is ...

From STEPHEN BAYLEY, Times Online,  29 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Ferdinand Porsche,  Volkswagen Group,  Adolf Hitler,  Enzo Ferrari,  James Dean

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