Pretty much required watching for all of you.
"The gentle, placid tone of this look at how designers have changed the world is partly down to Denis Lawson's voiceover and lovely music, but most credit goes to the beautifully turned script, which floats us through "an alternative history of the modern world, told through stuff". We begin with glassblowers and potters and progress via Josiah Wedgwood and William Morris to Henry Ford. The programme knows how to make us marvel at the cunning beauty of a bentwood chair or a design for sheep shears unchanged since the 1770s. And there are nice teapots, too."
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