My interiors life: weaned on the small screen

My formative years and future tastes in all things were formed by 1950s and 1960s television, says Joseph Connolly

FOR ME, IT WAS ALL DOWN TO what I saw on the box (which was a lot) — and this extended too to the arenas of action: a fantastic littering of such beautiful and extraordinary interiors, not one of which had I ever set foot in, nor even so much as glimpsed at first hand. And I yearned to haunt and inhabit every single one of them I was highly covetous of all I saw — I suppose because I was an only child doomed to walk this earth in short trousers and Start-Rite sandals and inhabit a bedroom which sported only a divan, my mother’s dressing table (which I didn’t understand either) and a wardrobe surmounted by suitcases and unexplained and mysterious, never opened, dusty and lumpish brown paper parcels,…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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