5 Quotes & Sayings By Peter York

Peter York is a British author, best known for his work on post-war cultural history. Educated at the University of Oxford, he has taught English Literature at the University of Warwick since 1982. He has also held posts at the University of Wales Swansea and the University of East Anglia. His most recent book is a study of cultural change in England in the 1950s.

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Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. Peter York
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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
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There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit. Peter York
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All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top. Peter York