By Reuters
From an Olympic gold medal to Pamela Anderson’s “Baywatch” red bathing suit, a new exhibition dedicated to all things swimming opens at London’s Design Museum this week.
“Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style” features more than 200 items that look at our love of water since the 1920s, be it at the lido, the pool or in nature.
“The show explores the last century of swimming through the lens of design,” Amber Butchart, guest curator of the exhibition, told Reuters at a press preview on Wednesday.
“We begin in the pool, we move into lido, and then we end in nature and each of those sections allows us to explore different themes, whether it’s materials and making, whether it is the… evolution of swimwear as a fashion object, or whether it is swimming in outdoor spaces and the architecture that allows access for that.”
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