{"id":131226,"date":"2022-10-27T23:35:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/made-com-was-a-window-into-the-mid-century-design-ideal-but-with-none-of-the-quality-morwenna-ferrier\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T23:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:52:01","slug":"made-com-was-a-window-into-the-mid-century-design-ideal-but-with-none-of-the-quality-morwenna-ferrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/made-com-was-a-window-into-the-mid-century-design-ideal-but-with-none-of-the-quality-morwenna-ferrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Made.com was a window into the mid-century design ideal \u2013 but with none of the quality | Morwenna Ferrier"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhen owning a home was out of the question, my sofa was a bizarre marker of stability. But looks can be deceivingRecently, I paid my local council \u00a310 to get rid of a sofa. It was a two-seater in blush pink with curved arms, and the unsettling ability to never change shape after I\u2019d sat on it. But it also repelled most spillages, so it became our \u201ctakeaway sofa\u201d. A year in, two of its legs broke. After that, we propped it up with a pair of yoga blocks before finally, last week, calling it a day.The sofa, which took almost four months to arrive and cost several hundred pounds \u2013 a sign, we presumed, of its enduring quality \u2013 came from Made.com, the furniture company that moved closer to administration this week with its share price tumbling by nearly 90% as it still searches for a buyer. I was not the first person of my generation to buy it, just as I was not the first to wait half a pregnancy for it to arrive, only to watch it then fall apart. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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