Posts Tagged sofa
Churchill’s Sofa
Posted by Jeff Awesome in Interior Design on August 20th, 2009
oh yes! (i’m so very very sorry!) I just found out that Winston Churchill’s very own sofa, used during his second term in office from ‘51 to ‘55, was recently sold for a staggering £7500! Now that is a lot for a sofa, even in the designer world where sofas can cost a lot. Its made even more unbelievable when you see the condition of it, OK condition would be a massive compliment!
Is a sofa really worth that much just because of who owned it? If that is the case imagine if someone like Paris Hilton sold her sofa, It would be worth literally…..a few pennies! An English man living in South Africa was the winning bidder and has been asked for the sofa to be “sympathetically restored”. Personally I very much doubt it would be a sofa that would actually get used so why not leave it in the ratty state it is in now? It would give for a much better story in my opinion.
It was lucky how it was saved because it was going to be scrapped as as broken old sofa, until the owners brother said it would be a shame to destroy it because of its heritage. They decided to auction it off expecting a relatively small amount and were obviously rather pleased with the final price, I know I would be!
Funky Furniture
Posted by Jeff Awesome in Interior Design on August 17th, 2009
Really crazy and funky designed furniture is obviously brilliant. I mean you just have to look at it to be amazed and it always makes you smile. What is it actually like to live with though? could you sit on some sofas that have no sides and are made completely of the scratchy side of velcro? It may look good but you also need to use it (unless your lucky enough to have 3 or 4 living rooms and 3 of them are just for show!) There are some fantastic designs around though that look just as comfortable as they do different.
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