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 Architecture
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. -Peter York Architecture
