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My sister had 2 of these chair and footstool, just...

2008-07-25T05:56:00.000+10:00

My sister had 2 of these chair and footstool, just divine!! I used to always admire them. Then just this hyear the leather was really worn out and she chose NOT to get it recovered, I nearly expired!!
She gave them away to a charity. There is a cool shop in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane that sells furniture of this ilke with beautiful new fabric upholstery...

As I said to Andi, Tessa are still making furnitur...

2008-07-23T17:17:00.000+10:00

As I said to Andi, Tessa are still making furniture, check out the website for more, it's just gorgeous, David Jones in Sydney stocks some of it - very limited range though.

Here it is... quite a mix of styles going on in th...

2008-07-23T17:12:00.000+10:00

Here it is... quite a mix of styles going on in this room :-)

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Cool. I love that mags back then expected people t...

2008-07-23T11:11:00.000+10:00

Cool. I love that mags back then expected people to have some basic know how when it came to making stuff. Imagine making your own lounge. I picked up a British magazine pitched at people who made things and it was pathetic. Here's how to make a woven God's Eye and ridiculous camp craft I wouldn't even inflict on my Girl Guide unit.

You are so right - I think lots of Europeans have ...

2008-07-23T07:19:00.000+10:00

You are so right - I think lots of Europeans have a different aesthetic to Aussies. I think it has lots to do with history and culture. I would love art and design to become so much more appreciated in Australian schools - not just the obligatory arts theory, but the real study of form and function.

White colour TV? How cool!!

We came out from Germany in 1971 - I think the Ger...

2008-07-23T07:15:00.000+10:00

We came out from Germany in 1971 - I think the Germans have a different aesthetic to Aussies, plus my parents had money to burn on all new furniture. I have a photo which I will try to scan which shows one of the tessa footstools and the white colour tv my dad brought over from germany (and me with our puppy!)

LOL - yes, I was only thinking the other day (or r...

2008-07-23T06:37:00.000+10:00

LOL - yes, I was only thinking the other day (or rueing the other day) why on earth I gave away my massive collection of smurfs and Nintendo Game and Watch's and my Lego collection! I wish my Mum had kept her turquoise blue plastic swivel chairs. I still have the white round table but it is so marked I can only use it in the garden...:( - but she was never as funky enough as your parents to buy Tessa!!

We had that Tessa furniture when I was a kid. We h...

2008-07-23T06:27:00.000+10:00

We had that Tessa furniture when I was a kid. We had it in orange velvety/cord... it wasn't ribbed like cord, but not as soft as velvet if you know what I mean. We had the table too. In fact, I think my Mum still has the table but it has a wooden top on it now, not glass, as one of her ginormous dogs broke it. All that stuff was dismantled and stored in my mum's roof up until a couple of years ago. I told her recently she'd probably get good money for it now, if she'd kept it.... but she didn't. Don't you HATE that!