Guides & journal
What we know about the pieces we sell
Buying an original second-hand or from excess stock means knowing what you are looking at. These guides set out what each piece actually is, what to check before you commit, and what it costs here.
Most of what we write about falls into three groups. The first is acoustic pods and phone booths — Framery, Silen, Loook — where the specification genuinely matters: the acoustic rating and the standard it was measured to, the ventilation, the weight, and whether the thing will physically get through your door. These are the most expensive items we sell and the easiest to get wrong.
The second is the design classics: Vitra, Knoll, Martela, La Palma. Here the questions are different. Is it the real thing, which variant is it, and what is a fair price for one that has already had a life? We write about how to tell an original from a reproduction, and what the condition grades mean in practice.
The third is simply how buying used and excess stock works: the difference between a piece that is new in its box because a project was cancelled and one that stood in a showroom for a year, what to ask before you commit, and how delivery works for something that weighs 325 kg. If you are furnishing an office or a home and have never bought this way before, that is the place to start.
Everything here is written from the stock we actually hold, so the prices, specifications and availability come from the product pages themselves rather than from a brochure. Where we do not know something, we say so.
