Dr Suzannah Lipscomb explores the time when British people embraced modern design for the first time after years of austerity and self-denial. The look and feel of the post-war 1950s home – a ‘modern’ world of moulded plywood furniture, fibreglass, plastics and polyester. This bright new era encompassed a host of social changes, including higher living standards and improved technologies but Suzannah discovers there were also unexpected dangers lurking throughout the changing home.