Stephen Bayley was the person for whom the term "design guru" was
coined, something he accepts with what he likes to think of as
self-deprecating irony. After a short and blameless period in
provincial academe, he joined Terence Conran in an attempt to
popularise design. This resulted in The Boilerhouse Project in
London's V&A which became the most successful gallery of the
eighties. The Boilerhouse evolved into the unique Design Museum
which Mrs Thatcher opened in 1989, after some finger wagging and
insisting it should not be called a "museum". During this period he
learnt a lot about the perversity of genius and the absurdity of
ambition.
Stephen Bayley has written many books and hundreds of articles
which have shaped the popular understanding of design. This is his
first attempt at fiction. He is Chairman of The Royal Fine Art
Commission Trust, an honorary visiting professor at the Liverpool
University School of Architecture and a Chevalier de l'Ordre Des
Arts et Des Lettres, France's highest artistic accolade.
Brilliantly drawn ..the pages are full of Wildean paradoxes
*The Spectator*
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