Part two tonight - and we move into the mid-century, between the war years. last week's show was excellent, you would be mad to miss this.
"You need your head screwed on to enjoy this account of how design evolved in the 1920s and 30s. It's as carefully assembled and polished as any of the designs it looks at, including the steel Bauhaus chair, the Anglepoise lamp and the electricity pylon. As well as profiling famous objects, it captures the grand sweep of design theory and how it moved on: how the pared-down purity of Bauhaus was a reaction to the "viny tendrils" of art nouveau; and how the bossy modernist approach was trumped by a sexy, commercial aesthetic in America that gave us "dream machines". On that front, there's a revealing scene where a historian picks out the differences between two 1930s shorthand," he argues, "for the differences between Europe and America."
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