Written in 1932 by the master of sophisticated wit, Noel Coward, Design for Living concerns Otto, an artist, Leo, a playwright, and Gilda, an interior designer, as they grapple with their complicated three-way relationship, summed up when Leo tells Gilda ‘I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me. There now! Start to unravel from there.’
From ‘love among the artists’ in a studio flat on the Left Bank in Paris, via the challenges of artistic and social success in London, to the glamour of a penthouse in New York, the three main characters ricochet off the people around them as they try to find some kind of liveable equilibrium.
