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20Age Re-Upholstered Furniture

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20Age specialise in restoring vintage chairs using an interesting array of fabrics.

Each piece is unique, but their current collection includes chairs by Chesterfield, Parker Knoll and Ercol, along with some unnamed Danish designs and egg chairs. The materials used to recover the chairs include velvet, retro patterned materials and designer prints by Heals, Missoni and Orla Kiely. The chair pictured here, is the Florence Chair, an Ercol rocking chair which uses a recent Orla Kiely design and costs £568.

View the whole collection online at the 20Age website.

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eBay watch: 1960s Ercol blonde dropleaf coffee table

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A few bids on this already, but the 1960s Ercol blonde dropleaf coffee table on eBay right now is still incredibly cheap.

A timeless midcentury gem, the coffee table measures 61cm diameter and is 40cm high. With the table with leaf down it measures 37cm wide. According to the seller, it has a figured elm top with single leaf, supported by a blonde beech gateleg which opens out supporting the leaf. All the legs and X-Stretcher are beech and have that distinctive Ercol tapered form.

Condition-wise, it has some wear from age and the odd scuff to the varnish, but 'nothing too serious' apparently. Price? Right now a steal at just £6.62.

Find out more at the eBay website

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Matthew Hilton for Ercol Treviso Desk

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A useful modern-day item with a midcentury twist – this Matthew Hilton for Ercol Treviso Desk.

Yes, cool designer meets heritage furniture brand, producing a desk that's good for writing letters or using with your modern-day notebook (note that slot for your wires at the back).

It's made from American oak solids and veneers and finished with a wax-look lacquer. It also features sliding drawers on the desk tidy, and underneath the desk top is a sliding drawer. Like those angle, tapered skinny legs too. Available online, it sells for £899.

Find out more at the John Lewis website

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Ercol for John Lewis Chiltern dining chair

Ercol for John Lewis

We've featured a few of Ercol's products released in honour of their 90th anniversary this year. They've gone back to their archives again to produce pieces exclusively for John Lewis, such as this Chiltern dining chair

The chair is based on an original 1950s design and the oak material and splayed legs looks both typical of Ercol and of that period. Also available in white or black colours, you can also buy an accompanying dining table in the same range. 

The chairs cost £175 each. 

Buy it online

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Ercol Studio 1950s sofa reissued

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We featured one item reissued for the company's 90th anniversary yesterday, but here's another gem that's back from the Ercol archives – the Ercol Studio sofa.

Designed by company founder Lucian Ercolani in the late 1950s, it's both stylish and versatile, not least because it can double up as an occasional bed as well as a sofa.

Made from solid elm and beech, you can get it finished in a wide range of fabrics. Because of that point, prices vary, but start at £1,875.

Find out more at the TwentyTwentyOne website

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Ercol’s 90th anniversary tri-colour nest of tables

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We actually featured the standard set some time ago, but Ercol has now produced a special 90th anniversary edition of its nest of tables with added colour.

It's still the same midcentury classic, a 1956 design from company founder Lucian Ercolani. Indeed, this edition celebrates 90 years since Ercolani set up the company. For that milestone, the tables comes as the tri-colour edition, specifically the three colours you can see above that cover the elm seat and angled beech legs.

If you want the set, £525 secures the three limited edition tables.

Find out more at the TwentyTwentyOne website