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Fifties domestic harmony

You’ll see nothing ‘cream and green and cosy’ in this spiky, gutsy and playful recreation of postwar interiors from Pangolin London

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

Our love affair with the 1950s has been going on for years and shows no sign of abating. Pangolin London, the city arm of the Gloucestershire foundry, has cleverly used the visceral appeal of Fifties design — if ever a period merited the term gay in its original sense, this one does — to show how sculpture can be incorporated into a domestic setting (until 17 May).

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