The House the 50s Built
The Living Room
S1 E2:
Professor Brendan Walker's look at Britain since the 1950s focusses on the living room. A dramatic transformation reveals how science and technology banished the dark, formal, barely-used front room and gave us a bright, colourful beacon of 50s style that became a hub of family entertainment. Out with bulky sofas made of hessian and in with comfortable, light chairs made of the 50s wonder material: foam.