00:00I'm Amber Butchart and I'm the guest curator of Splash, a century of swimming in style
00:08at the Design Museum.
00:10I live here in Margate and I grew up in a seaside town in coastal Suffolk, so I really
00:18love the kind of culture that you get at these seaside towns, everything from Kiss Me Quick
00:22Hats to Buckets and Spades.
00:25And in terms of swimming, I love to get into some of the tidal pools that we have here
00:29in Margate.
00:30There's one behind me.
00:31I love this idea of people trying to contain nature, so it's really these links between
00:37design and swimming and the seaside that has been so important for me to explore in this
00:43exhibition.
00:44The exhibition looks at the last hundred years of swimming through the lens of design.
00:50So we cover a number of different areas from architecture to swimwear.
00:56The show itself is structured through three spaces in which we swim.
01:01So we begin in the pool, we then move into the Lido and we finish swimming through nature.
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