30 years after finding worldwide fame as TV's most flamboyant interior designer, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has a new mission: to turn retirement villages into places more like boutique hotels than 'oatmeal coffins'.

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen: 'We're the generation that saw the Sex Pistols live. We did it. We were really out there. Just because we're 60 does not mean we should be fitting some kind of mould that was created by our parents or by our grandparents.'
30 years after finding worldwide fame as TV's most flamboyant interior designer, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has a new mission: to turn retirement villages into places more like boutique hotels than 'oatmeal coffins'.