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Navy Quilted Chair

Like many of you I have been conducting a secret flirtation with navy blue - secret only because I still love grey - but the site of this chair means I may have to confess all and bring my affair into the open. It's navy, it's quilted with dark wood and I love it and
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Objects of Design #356: Pipe Coat Hook

pipe coat hook from cox and cox This is one of those products that makes me all excited. And yes, some of you will think that's terribly sad. The rest of you know exactly what I mean. I am mildly obsessed with coat storage as, in the UK at least, halls tend to be tiny
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Objects of Design #258: Vintage Wooden Crates

apple crate shelving from baileyshome.com
vintage drinks crates £35 from designvintage.co.uk  I do love a vintage wooden crate. It has to be the genuine article mind, no pastiche versions for me. But once you track them down, old drinks ones like above, wooden wine boxes or apple crates, there are a myriad different uses for them. vintage pepsi crates £65
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Design Classics #28: Kenwood Chef

Top of the Wedding Present Pops. Image from flickriver.com  In 1948, Kenneth Wood gathered together £800 of capital and 20 members of staff and moved into a factory in Woking where he set up a manufacturing company. Two years later he launched the Kenwood Chef (A700 model) at the Ideal Homes Exhibition and began a
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