Gavin PlumleyGavin Plumley is a cultural historian. He is the author of A Home for All Seasons and is currently writing his second book. Gavin appears on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and recently made his cinematic debut in Klimt and The Kiss Gavin Plumley: Shakespeare’s country isn’t Stratford-upon-Avon, it’s the quiet and beautiful Herefordshire countryside where Hamnet was filmed Herefordshire is the very picture of what England is in the collective mind’s eye. Art Deco: The striking design style that embraced it all Art Deco, with its exuberant passion for geometry, luxury and shiny chrome, cocooned troubled times in a layer of glitz. A century after the style gained its name, Gavin Plumley surveys one of the 20th century’s most all-encompassing movements. By Gavin Plumley Published 19 August 25
