A Time of Magic

Much as we’re all familiar with buying normal furniture and the hassle of trawling round showroom after showroom full of the stuff, office furniture is quite a different matter.

For one thing, it’s on the whole smaller: no massive beds or settees for example. That makes quite a major difference in how it’s sold because a fairly complete range can be held in stock by a reasonably small storeroom.

Usually you don’t get anything like the range of optional extras such as colours or fabrics and even then it’s from a limited range. So you’re not going to be offered an entire colour book when you want to buy a chair as you would be for normal furniture. Likewise, the range of fabrics is considerably more limited: hardwearing is the description that usually applies to all those on offer.

Makes you wonder if we’d all be better off approaching our home furniture in the same way, doesn’t it?

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