{"id":173,"date":"2026-09-15T13:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2026-09-15T13:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:34:26","slug":"stephen-bayley-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/15\/stephen-bayley-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Bayley on What Makes Design Last"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bb1AVEbszbE?si=FwVfPJcShmQh9cjd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen Bayley, co-founder of London&#8217;s Design Museum and longtime design critic, has spent decades studying what makes everyday objects last. In this piece, Bayley looks at iconic design \u2014 the products that got shaped right once and never needed reinventing \u2014 and at where AI-generated design still comes up short.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a world that keeps dematerializing, we\u2019re still surrounded by objects \u2014 and some of them have outlasted decades because a brilliant mind got the design right the first time. Bayley\u2019s perspective is a reminder that good design isn\u2019t just aesthetics: it\u2019s judgment, restraint, and an understanding of how people actually live with things over time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design critic Stephen Bayley on the everyday objects that outlast decades, and where AI-generated design still falls short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophewilhelm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}