Peter York quote — “By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money ta…”

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By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

Peter York art design late

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