The Lure of the Blue Geode

and the joys and challenges of post-war design

FOR MANY YEARS I have been interested in mid-twentieth century design. From textiles to buildings, it has been a source of fascination, and I’m not entirely sure that this isn’t the inward expression of a narcissistic attachment to objects made at a point in time coinciding with my own manufacture. Whatever the case, I have experienced an evolving appre…