All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry
★ 8.0·2012·1 seasons · 3 episodes·Series
Documentary
Synopsis
All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry is a 2012 documentary television series on United Kingdom station Channel 4, starring Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry. The series analysed the ideas of taste held by the different social classes of the United Kingdom. Perry produced a series of six tapestries depicting the taste ideas of Britons, entitled "The Vanity of Small Difference."
Episodes
Season 11E1Working Class TasteGrayson Perry begins his investigation of British taste in Sunderland, a city with strong working-class traditions. Originally from a working-class background himself, Perry is interested in how our family background and the class journey we take shape the way we define ourselves through what we wear and buy, and how we live.2E2Middle Class TasteThis week Grayson focuses on the middle class as he continues his exploration of British tastes, trends and lifestyles. He visits a new executive housing development in Kent where he believes the residents are more materialistic, and keen to separate themselves from their old working-class backgrounds. He then explores the more traditionally middle-class residents of Tunbridge Wells, who, with their organic food, gastropubs, vintage furniture and dinner parties are more self-conscious about what their taste decisions say about them. Finally, he invites the people he meets to view the tapestries he has made about them.3E3Upper Class TasteIn his final journey to explore what our taste says about us, Grayson Perry lives amongst the upper classes of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, and meets The Marquess of Bath and Longleat and bohemian Detmar Blow. 'A sucker,' as he admits, 'for a crumbly old stately home,' Grayson is interested in analysing the continuing hold that upper-class taste still has on the British imagination, and wants to know whether it's still something the rest of us should aspire to.
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