The Art of Living by Stephen Bayley

The Art of Living by Stephen Bayley

Some people make living an art, none more so than Eustace Dunne, entrepreneur, maverick, magpie, media darling, advisor to government, bon viveur. Over the course of his long and storied life and career, he will straddle the worlds of design and cuisine and in so doing change them and the tastes of the nation forever....

A wild satirical journey through the world of late 20th-century art and design, treating us to exuberantly drawn, invented characters and many real-life style icons * Daily Mail *
Eustace Dunne is a wonderful central character.. there is much to cherish in The Art of Living... full of sly humour and repellent characters ... the wit is droll * Independent *
Brilliantly drawn ..the pages are full of Wildean paradoxes * The Spectator *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780857526397
ISBN 10	0857526391
Title	The Art of Living
Author	Stephen Bayley
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	2021-07-01
Number of pages	400
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