Like BoConcept - but more affordable

[briSk]

we'd like to find some furniture like that produced by BoConcept - but more affordable. can anyone recommend anywhere?
please don't say ikea!
http://www.boconcept.co.uk/

if you look at some of the sort of arm chair things (like eams chairs or whetever) we're after something like that.

not really cheap - but say £500 for the chair as opposed to £900 at Bo.

any ideas..?

oh and we'll be based between mk and buckingham so ideally we'll be able to go to see stuff somewhere in the bicester-banbury-kettering-luton area...

[mgtony]

I'll recommend Dwell once again, but must state I have no connection with them.

[satans worm]

Try natuzzi sofa's, good quality, not totaly unreasonable prices, House of Fraser stocks them I think....

[briSk]

mgtony said:

I'll recommend Dwell once again, but must state I have no connection with them.

looks quite good that. think we might go there.

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also in MK - isn;t there somewhere that sells eames chairs and things on the cheap?
did it open maybe a couple of months ago? any ideas chaps?

[OldSkoolRS]

Have you looked in Ikea? I haven't been there for a long while myself, but they used to do quite modern seating at very reasonable prices.

[edwardsje]

www.interioraddict.com ?

[briSk]

edwardsje said:

www.interioraddict.com ?

this has potential. at least on line.

[JustinP1]

I have just picked an item at random at BoConcept:

Coffee table, round, black stained oak veneer...

£753!!!

Don't get me wrong, I like the style but that is crazy.

[briSk]

JustinP1 said:

I have just picked an item at random at BoConcept:

Coffee table, round, black stained oak veneer...

£753!!!

Don't get me wrong, I like the style but that is crazy.

they've got cushions for £95!
the chairs and stuff aren;t too far out but some of the other stuff is a bit keen.

it depends on your position though becuase there really is a noticeable difference in quality compared to habitat/JLP/and the like let alone other people.

but it IS too dear for me to justify. hence the thread!

[JustinP1]

briSk said:

JustinP1 said:

I have just picked an item at random at BoConcept:

Coffee table, round, black stained oak veneer...

£753!!!

Don't get me wrong, I like the style but that is crazy.

they've got cushions for £95!
the chairs and stuff aren;t too far out but some of the other stuff is a bit keen.

it depends on your position though becuase there really is a noticeable difference in quality compared to habitat/JLP/and the like let alone other people.

but it IS too dear for me to justify. hence the thread!

Habitat isn't that bad, similar to Dwell.

The thing is, if I were spending even a few hundred quid, let alone £753, I would expect solid, finished oak rather than just a veneer!

[briSk]

i didn;t say habitat was bad.. i just said they were better!

you've got a good point though. one is paying for the design and one is paying for the quality of finishing.. but what one isn't getting necessarily is materials!

to a certain extent they'd be better off going down a more 'engineered wood' route and being a little more 'honest'.

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but this is a digression!

we'll go to dwell and see how good it is.

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one thing we're am struggling with is (dining) tables. neither of us like 'glass n steel' tables (in fact for us they couldn't be futher from what we wanted if they were a pair of trousers). BUT most wooden ones are potentially too 'plain' for our new pad (STC). i kind of want to get a cheap tatty old skool type table with things carved in to it 9like my grandmother's mahogany table) .. and then spray it bright red or something and have similar chairs (or pair it with modern chairs)...

[B16JUS]

there are a couple of shops at old spittlefield market in london that sell stuff like boconcept one of them has a sale on at the moment

J