Ercol Webbing Replacement

October 25, 2011 //

Elasticated webbing held to the frame with masses of staples? Pretty horrid on an aesthetic level – the bodge of stables on the underside of the frame just made me angry! – but also a really poor way of springing any piece of furniture originally fitted with Pirelli rubber webbing. Compared to the Pirelli, elastic webbing is less taut from the start, loses it’s tension more quickly, slides across itself too easily (what’s the point in creating a webbing structure which opens up wherever weight is placed upon it?) and doesn’t help to hold the main cushion in place either. Let the renovation begin…

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New Thing: Pifco 1072 Fan

October 8, 2011 //

I have absolutely no idea why I was looking at fans when I saw this – it’s not exactly scorching in October! – but I thought it would look good on the newly-acquired sideboard (even if it is 1970s rather than 1950s) and was going so cheap it would’ve been rude not too.
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New Thing: Fornasetti Rosewood Sideboard

October 3, 2011 //

I apologise for the photo - we're running out of room!

Katie loves this sideboard – she’d been lusting after it for a while, but until the price was dropped considerably it was way more than we were willing to pay for a more decorative (if still practical) piece of furniture, especially as we still had plenty of house-related expenditures to come.

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New Thing: Coffee Table

August 22, 2011 //

Purchased on a complete impulse after the usual eBay trawling exercises! Having recently been salivating over the Eames Hang-it-all coat hanger it was inevitable that the styling of the legs & feet would suck me in, but in the end price and location made it impossible to resist.

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New Thing: Guildform Dining Table

August 18, 2011 //

There’s nothing like purchasing a dinnerware set to make you acutely aware of your lack of a dining table to put it on! We found this lovely Guildform drop-leaf after a good few trawls of eBay searching for formica-topped tables – we’d originally been looking at coloured formica but we really liked the pattern on this example and the formica itself was also in excellent condition (something that couldn’t be said for many of the tables we looked at).
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New Things: Picknick Coasters

July 28, 2011 //

After the expense of the Ercol it was nice to go back to picking up little things that were both suitably period and wouldn’t break the bank. This coaster set from New House Textiles uses elements from the 1950s “Picknick” pattern by Swedish ceramic designer Marianne Westman – very cool, though we don’t actually have any tables to use these on… sounds ominous!

Bought from: New House Textiles
Bought for: £11.40

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New Thing: Ercol Studio Couch

July 20, 2011 //

Probably the biggest furniture purchase we’ll ever make for No.3 (I should hope so!) but worth every penny. It’s a gorgeous piece of furniture – a bit of an icon I guess, though we didn’t buy it for that reason – and there’s a solidity and quality to old furniture like this (built in the 60s) that really makes you feel like it’ll last forever…
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New Things: Dandelion Clocks Dinnerware

July 11, 2011 //

We stumbled across Dandelion Clocks – a 1950s-inspired pattern by Sanderson – as a tableware pattern first and foremost. It turns out the pattern is actually a 2009 creation rather than a true 1950s reproduction (though Sanderson do produce some of those too) which I think explains why, being a modern interpretation, it’s a little less full on than true repros like Festival or Mobiles. Read the rest of this entry »

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New Thing: Grayson Clock

June 28, 2011 //

I’m not quite sure where the initial lust for one of these clocks came from, but Katie was adamant about having one and spent many an evening stalking eBay before she bid on and won this super-tidy example. It’s a great design and definitely very “R word” (shudder) – we originally thought it would be perfect for the kitchen but currently swaying towards the lounge as it’s such a eye catcher. Read the rest of this entry »

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