The Design Museum exhibition, Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style, is guest-curated by dress and design historian Amber Butchart, known for her history segments on BBC One’s The Great British Sewing Bee, and curated by Tiya Dahyabhai for the Design Museum. Here, Amber introduces the exhibition from her home town of Margate. Full story at https://lucire.com/insider/20241212/pamela-andersons-baywatch-one-piece-louis-reard-original-among-exhibits-at-splash/
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00:00I'm Amber Butchart and I'm the guest curator of Splash, a century of swimming in style
00:08at the Design Museum.
00:10I live here in Margate and I grew up in a seaside town in coastal Suffolk, so I really
00:18love the kind of culture that you get at these seaside towns, everything from Kiss Me Quick
00:22Hats to Buckets and Spades.
00:25And in terms of swimming, I love to get into some of the tidal pools that we have here
00:29in Margate.
00:30There's one behind me.
00:31I love this idea of people trying to contain nature, so it's really these links between
00:37design and swimming and the seaside that has been so important for me to explore in this
00:43exhibition.
00:44The exhibition looks at the last hundred years of swimming through the lens of design.
00:50So we cover a number of different areas from architecture to swimwear.
00:56The show itself is structured through three spaces in which we swim.
01:01So we begin in the pool, we then move into the Lido and we finish swimming through nature.