Was life in 1950s Britain so very awful? Every assessment of the legacy of Terence Conran, who died last month at the age of eighty-eight, has insisted that it was. In an amusing overview of Conran’s impact on British culture, the Guardian journalist Suzanne Moore recalled ‘the drabness of the postwar years, the grey houses, the Spam fritters, the
Earlier this year Derek Jarman’s aptly named Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, perched on a bleak shingle headland on the Kent coast, was saved for the nation. The fate of the artist, filmmaker and activist’s pitchblackened and Naples yellow cottage and its more celebrated garden is now secure (Fig.20). The ensemble has been described as ‘an inspiring example