16 Facts About Stephen Bayley

Stephen Paul Bayley was born on 13 October 1951 and is a British writer and critic, known particularly for his commentary on architecture and design.

Stephen Bayley was founding CEO of the Design Museum in London in 1989, and has been a regular architecture, art and design critic for newspapers such as The Listener, The Observer and The Spectator.

Stephen Bayley was inspired by Liverpool's architecture and its built environment.

When Stephen Bayley was 15, he wrote a letter to John Lennon, who had attended Quarry Bank as a teenager.

Stephen Bayley was later educated at Manchester University and the University of Liverpool School of Architecture, where his mentor was the historian and conservationist Quentin Hughes, whose obituary he wrote in The Guardian, 16 May 2004.

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Stephen Bayley first became prominent as an authority on style and design when, in 1979, he began a collaboration with Habitat founder Sir Terence Conran to promote a more intelligent awareness of design.

The Boilerhouse evolved into a unique Design Museum of which Stephen Bayley was the founding CEO, and which was opened by Margaret Thatcher in 1989.

Stephen Bayley was appointed as the creative director of the exhibition at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich.

In 2007, Stephen Bayley became The Observers architecture and design correspondent.

Stephen Bayley writes for a huge range of national and international consumer, trade and professional publications including: The Spectator, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Sud Deutsches Zeitung, GQ, Car, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and Octane.

Stephen Bayley has been a contributing editor of GQ since the magazine was launched.

Stephen Bayley has been a columnist in The Times and The Independent, as well as the art critic of The Listener and the architecture critic of The Observer.

Stephen Bayley has appeared on television series such as Have I Got News for You and Grumpy Old Men.

In 1989, Stephen Bayley was made a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's top artistic honour, by the French Minister of Culture and in 1995 he was Periodical Publishers Association Columnist of the Year.

Stephen Bayley is an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, a Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Chairman of The Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust, and a Fellow of Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

Stephen Bayley was arguing against the motion that: "Britain has become indifferent to beauty" proposed by Roger Scruton and David Starkey, who held an image of The Birth of Venus next to an image of the British supermodel Kate Moss, in order to demonstrate how "cruddy" British culture is.