Salon member Niall Crowley in The Independent

"If a new generation of artists, designers and architects are going to create the products, the buildings and the infrastructure we need and deserve, they have to begin to think more critically about contemporary ideas, and challenge taboos and orthodoxies like environmentalism and sustainability. Only then can they throw off their self-imposed limitations, think big and finally stand on the shoulders of giants like Sir Henry Cole".

'Make do and mend' is not the way for us all to get better stuff