Stephen Bayley

Stephen Paul Bayley FRIBA (born 13 October 1951) is a Welsh writer and critic, known particularly for his commentary on architecture and design.

Bayley was born on 13 October 1951 in Cardiff, Wales[1] and spent his childhood years in Liverpool, England, attending Quarry Bank High School for Boys.

On his resignation, he said of the dome that "it could turn out to be crap", and accused government minister Peter Mandelson of "running the project like a dictator".

It was produced by Patrick Uden and included unique interviews with Dieter Rams, Ettore Sottsass, Raymond Loewy, and Tom Wolfe.

[citation needed] The American author and journalist Tom Wolfe said of him, "I don’t know anybody with more interesting observations about style, taste and contemporary design".

[6] In his Observer column of 22 March 2009, Bayley claimed wrongly[7] that: "Botticelli's model for The Birth of Venus was a common Florentine hooker called Simonetta Vespucci, painted nude to titillate his client".