We found this Scandinavian office chair on one of our trips to Sweden last year.
Dating from the 1950's, it is made of worked steel and moulded maple-veneered ply. A very stylish and practical piece of furniture, it swivels with an approximate 6 inch rise-and-fall, whilst the back-rest also swivels but with the added bonus of the angle of tilt being adjustable.
The
metalwork has been lightly burnished, and then sealed with a clear wax.
When we first saw these, covered in rust, we saw their potential in those brilliant red wheels with solid white tyres. After burnishing the metalwork, we sealed the metal frame with a clear wax.
We are always on the look-out for unusual items of stock, and this vintage poultry incubator certainly fits the bill.
Dating from the early part of the 20th century, possibly 1920's, 'The Hebditch' must have been the bees-knees of farmyard technology in its day. Entirely constructed out of pine, with brass hinges and fasteners, it was built to last.
We have slightly modified it to make it more practical for the home. It has been thoroughly cleaned, the original racks replaced with solid shelves, and an internal paint, now make it an attractive table/storage unit.
We've been working with our local blacksmith Wilfy Sleep to produce some new furniture inspired by some of our finds. This steel shelf-unit has been made-to-measure to utilize two original 1930's panels of black glass.
We then gave it a couple of coats of contrasting green paint to compliment the glass.
This coat rack uses some vintage schoolroom hooks, which we've mounted onto a fragment of a reclaimed packing case from the 1940's.
Some objects deserve to be described as works of art, no matter how common, practical, or mundane they may at first appear. This certainly applies to this beautiful set of Slazenger bowling balls from the 1920's/30's.
The 8 boxed balls are made of Lignum Vitae, one of the densest, hardest, woods in the world, and are separately numbered with dots of bone or ivory set into the wood surface.
The box that houses them bears the retailing mark of A.W. Gamage Ltd, a Victorian department store that once dominated Holborn, in London, until 1972.
A Deco-looking lamp made from a converted farmhouse Tilley Lamp. Dating from the 1930's, it still retains most of its original chrome plating, but some of the underlying brass has rubbed through after many years of use. It has been rewired and given a new shade.
