Peter Layton's life story, "as colourful as his work"

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In this Movers & Shakers feature, Homes & Gardens charts Peter Layton's remarkable journey, from his family's flight from Prague as refugees in 1937, through a career spanning textiles, the RAF, ceramics and teaching, to discovering glassblowing in America in the 1960s. Returning to the UK, Peter set up his first studio in the Scottish Highlands before founding London Glassblowing in 1976, working in an old towage works by the Thames with total novices who, as he puts it, turned out to be pioneers. The piece also looks ahead to the studio's future, with son-in-law Tim Rawlinson and daughter Sophie Layton set to take the reins in 2027, continuing a legacy now fifty years in the making.