Ageing Gracefully

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Tom Dyckhoff, the writer about architecture, looks at the world we inhabit through the lens of design. In today's episode, he talks to Sir Kenneth Grange about his ideas on designing furniture for older people, for whom the shiny surfaces and minimal comfort of much modernist design poses challenges. He visits a retro-fitted 'Fifties home in Staffordshire and the site of the soon-to-be restored vintage-style amusement park, Dreamland in Margate, asking at what point a building, object or experience should become monumentalised. And from Brooklyn, New York Tom hears about 'creative caring' and the need to 'respect age' for the objects in our lives, from participants in the Fixers' Collective. Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.