Possible Clues:

• Part of Whitechapel featuring industrial design
• Designed with lots of glass and metal, for short
• Sophisticated electronics
• Snag about English style of interior design
• Director of The Birds, in short, keeps first example of modern interior design
• Extremely modern, clad in white chiffon
• State of the art — an impediment without direction
• Problem over sweetheart with description of modern gadgetry
• Space-age couple storing energy
• State-of-the-art, briefly