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70s Style & Design: Beyond the Avocado Suite

Debunking Jon Savage's 'The decade that taste forgot,' (The Face, February 1988) is a book by Dominic Lutyens and Kirsty Hislop, 70s Style & Design. This book has rescued the decade from parody and presents it as a vitally important period in the creative arts.  So forget the cliches of avocado suites for the bathroom and crimplene flares, this book argues that today's design owes a great debt to the