The secret life of chairs
During his 30-year career as an upholsterer, Stuart Coote has found lots of strange things down the back of the sofa. Many items you might expect – coins, crochet hooks, cannabis, cutlery from TV dinners – but oddities he’s discovered inside antiques include an 1899 front page article about the Boer War, medals and ‘saucy underwear, concealed in a place it wouldn’t be found, presumably as a key turned unexpectedly in a lock…
‘Taking apart people’s furniture gives
