The Art of Living av Stephen Bayley

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<p><b>With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK''s foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the late 20th century.</b><br><br>''Brilliantly drawn ..the pages are full of Wildean paradoxes'' <i>The Spectator</i><b><br>______________________________</b><br><b><br>Someone once said you can find beauty anywhere. But all Eustace Dunne can see is ugliness</b>.<br>The buildings are grey, the people are tired and unimaginative, the food is inedible and life is drab, drab, drab.<br><br>Growing up in an England ravaged by the Second World War, Eustace resolves to make things beautiful again. A mercurial stint in art school gives him a springboard into a world that is changing so fast you have to hold on tight to keep up. And in that world, ambition, timing and a modicum of talent can transform you into anything you want to be.<br><br>Before long he''s an artist, a designer, a restaurate