A Jamaican Cockney Tale: Why Retro Armchairs Still Matter

I reach this city when Empire Windrush dock. Talk about retro armchair, vintage sofa?. First flat mi rent in Brixton, but seat crack but it never mash up. Dem no see value in scratch and scar. Step in Portobello, you could try here see retro sofa pile high. Not pretty-pretty, but dem honest. When London swing 1960s, people buy furniture to last. Retro keep history alive. Cold, snow pon street, but Everybody sit pon it. Mi can smell the leather now.

Design mix by area. Chelsea go fancy, wid deep wingback. Shoreditch wild, wid mismatched armchair. Modern flat-pack? Mi tell you straight – rubbish. Vintage chair hold family together. Listen dis, mi love vintage over flat-pack. When you tempted by showroom, stop an look round, and see it carry laugh and cry.