'Modernism: Designing a New World' is the V&A's spring hot ticket and the first full-on tribute to the masterminds of mass-production. Streamlining society with their geometric, angular shapes and modernist mantra that 'less is more', Bauhaus school winners such as Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer have inspired many design classics over the years.

Highlights include the iconic Cantilever Chair and Harry Beck's first sketch of the London Underground map. But, it's not all buildings and bookcases here - the exhibition also recognises, fashion, art and rather oddly, healthy body culture; it'll be interesting to see how they tie that one in!

Anyway, as it's design week all round, guess it's time to pay homage. We owe a lot to Corbusier and his crew for not only did they give us fitted kitchens and open plan living (we love), but their flat roofs made sunbathing fashionable. Now, sunbathing may no longer be fashionable, but roof top lounging (under a brollie, of course) seems like reason enough to celebrate for me.