Comments on: British Design – Has It Gone Cheesy? http://www.psfk.com/2007/02/british_design_.html Ideas & Trends Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:02:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sam http://www.psfk.com/2007/02/british_design_.html/comment-page-1#comment-514 sam Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-514 <p>Blame Jonathan Ive. <br /> It was space-age optimism coupled with plastics fabrication technology that drove it the first time around. Now it looks like it's mostly fashion driven, with a little late-stage techno-utopia thrown in.</p> <p>1998 FOREVER!!!</p> Blame Jonathan Ive.
It was space-age optimism coupled with plastics fabrication technology that drove it the first time around. Now it looks like it’s mostly fashion driven, with a little late-stage techno-utopia thrown in.

1998 FOREVER!!!

]]> By: John Voelcker http://www.psfk.com/2007/02/british_design_.html/comment-page-1#comment-515 John Voelcker Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-515 <p>What kills me is that with all this focus on neo-Sixties style cues, the Barbican -- the largest assemblage of actual British high-Sixties interior design in London -- languishes. When, oh when, will someone create a trust to care for its plexiglass chandeliers and its burnt-orange velvet furniture as lovingly as we care for National Trust estates?</p> What kills me is that with all this focus on neo-Sixties style cues, the Barbican — the largest assemblage of actual British high-Sixties interior design in London — languishes. When, oh when, will someone create a trust to care for its plexiglass chandeliers and its burnt-orange velvet furniture as lovingly as we care for National Trust estates?

]]> By: frank http://www.psfk.com/2007/02/british_design_.html/comment-page-1#comment-516 frank Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-516 <p>anyone notice what it said on the barclays bank window? 'Through these doors walk the loveliest people in the world!' 'And your one of them!' eeurgh</p> anyone notice what it said on the barclays bank window? ‘Through these doors walk the loveliest people in the world!’ ‘And your one of them!’ eeurgh

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