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Cable by Anthony Hartley. Furniture designer and maker.

Photos: Anthony Hartley

Table and chairs

Anthony Hartley is a designer / maker of furniture with an eye for innovation and detail. The family of furniture featured here is known as “Cable”. The name comes from the cable ties that are used to stitch the components of each piece together. Read more

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Flying by the seat of your pants: British wingback chairs by the HB Group.

The Oscar Wingback.

The Oscar Wingback.

There is something simultaneously ridiculous, appealing and practical about the wingback chair. I do not know who or where it was first invented, but the Chesterfield chair, long associated with drawing rooms and gentlemen’s clubs, has come to be seen as quintessentially British, solid, high quality and rather old fashioned.

But the wingback is enjoying a revival. Designers and makers are reinventing the chair to bring a touch of Clubland to contemporary interiors. Read more

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