Design

How Nova revolutionised women’s magazines

16 November 2019 9:00 am

Batsford has just brought out a huge tome on Nova — ‘one of the most influential magazines in history’ —…

Draft of the first Ferrari car, 125 S, designed by Gioachino Colombo, 1945

Ferrari – heavy, expensive, wasteful, dangerous and addictive

20 January 2018 9:00 am

Has a more beautiful machine in all of mankind’s fretful material endeavours ever been made than a ’60 Ferrari 250…

Man machine: Fritz Kahn’s ‘Der Mensch als Industrieplast’, 1926,which shows the body not so much as a sacred temple as as a churning and industrious factory

Vital signs

30 September 2017 9:00 am

Exhibit A. It is 1958 and you are barrelling down a dual carriageway; the 70 mph limit is still eight…

The rise and fall of Sony

12 December 2015 9:00 am

Sony was the Apple of its day and more. Stephen Bayley charts its years of creativity unrivalled in the history of consumerism

The rise and fall of Sony

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

Here is a Japanese fairy tale for Christmas. An allegory of insight, opportunism and a fall from favour. It is…

The rise and fall of Sony

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

Here is a Japanese fairy tale for Christmas. An allegory of insight, opportunism and a fall from favour. It is…

Cecil Beaton with Mickey the cat, Reddish house (self-portrait)

The genius of Cecil Beaton’s interiors

15 November 2014 9:00 am

The odds were a hundred to one against him. Brought up in bourgeois Bayswater by genteel parents, Cecil Beaton was…

Un-Beaton

13 November 2014 3:00 pm

The odds were a hundred to one against him. Brought up in bourgeois Bayswater by genteel parents, Cecil Beaton was…

Cecil Beaton with Mickey the cat, Reddish house (self-portrait)

Un-Beaton

13 November 2014 3:00 pm

The odds were a hundred to one against him. Brought up in bourgeois Bayswater by genteel parents, Cecil Beaton was…

Ukip's logo is quite successful – in communicating a spirit of gung-ho crapness

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Now that the conference season is over, we can compare not just the party policies, but their logos too. Last…

Unintelligent design

9 October 2014 2:00 pm

Now that the conference season is over, we can compare not just the party policies, but their logos too. Last…

Unintelligent design

9 October 2014 2:00 pm

Now that the conference season is over, we can compare not just the party policies, but their logos too. Last…

The most inspiring gift for your child this Christmas

14 December 2013 9:00 am

One of the big differences between Frank Lloyd Wright and me is that, when he was nine, his mother gave…

Building a future

12 December 2013 3:00 pm

One of the big differences between Frank Lloyd Wright and me is that, when he was nine, his mother gave…

Building a future

12 December 2013 3:00 pm

One of the big differences between Frank Lloyd Wright and me is that, when he was nine, his mother gave…

Create your own culture

13 June 2013 1:00 pm

Technology is turning the human urge to consume information into an unhealthy addiction. Some of this consumption — reading, following…

Create your own culture

13 June 2013 1:00 pm

Technology is turning the human urge to consume information into an unhealthy addiction. Some of this consumption — reading, following…

Dream machine

16 May 2013 1:00 pm

In 1951, Arthur Drexler, an influential curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, organised an exhibition called 8 Automobiles.…

Dream machine

16 May 2013 1:00 pm

In 1951, Arthur Drexler, an influential curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, organised an exhibition called 8 Automobiles.…

Not the who but the how

28 February 2013 2:00 pm

Twenty-five years ago I went to St James’s Palace to ask the Prince of Wales if he would open the…

Not the who but the how

28 February 2013 2:00 pm

Twenty-five years ago I went to St James’s Palace to ask the Prince of Wales if he would open the…

Mauvais goût

31 January 2013 2:00 pm

It was dinner at a prize-winning hotel in Burgundy. I looked, stupefied, at an awkward arrangement of trapezoidal plates, unaccommodating…

Mauvais goût

31 January 2013 2:00 pm

It was dinner at a prize-winning hotel in Burgundy. I looked, stupefied, at an awkward arrangement of trapezoidal plates, unaccommodating…

In the worst possible taste

13 December 2012 2:00 am

What are the rules of taste at Christmas? How might the fastidious chart a neat path through this garish and…

In the worst possible taste

13 December 2012 2:00 am

What are the rules of taste at Christmas? How might the fastidious chart a neat path through this garish and…