A selection of our latest stock for your perusal...
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.
A set of
vintage, lightweight tubular steel sack wheels, dating
from the early 20th century.
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.
