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Design authority Stephen Bayley discusses his new book, Woman as Design, a completely original look at how design has appropriated the female form.

If woman had been designed, what was the brief? Stephen Bayley discusses how the female body works as a sign, a symbol, a designed object. He takes us from Aphrodite to the Delta of Venus to the industrialization of the brest (in bra form), examining pin-ups and stereotypes, and reappraising that most familiar, yet mysterious of things, the female body -- a masterpiece of design, the perfect marriage of form and function.

About Stephen Bayley

For over thirty years, Stephen Bayley's articles and books have changed people's perceptions of design. With Terence Conran, he created the influential Boilerhouse Project in London's V&A and the unique Design Museum which resulted from it. An award-winning commentator on art and design, he was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts in 1989.

Read Stephen Bayley's articles on architecture and design in The Guardian.