THE GUARDIAN
THE GUARDIAN: How good design can brighten a dreary life
Death of designer Terence Conran reminds us of the value of style
21 September 2020 - 13:54
“Art,” wrote William Morris in April 1885 in the socialist newspaper Commonweal, “is man’s embodied expression of interest in the life of man; it springs from man’s pleasure in his life”.
Of course, life was not all pleasure. There was grief and pain in abundance, but there was also memory, hope and — above all — the attention that could be paid to the unavoidable business of daily living: “It is the lack of this pleasure in daily work which has made our towns and habitations sordid and hideous, insults to the beauty of the earth which they disfigure, and all the accessories of life mean, trivial, ugly.”..
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