Think they are made new via here https://twentytwentyone.com/product/robin-day-reclining-chair

Would love one, good design for smaller spaces. Only potential drawback is no footstool. Arms look good size for those bulky 90's TV & HIFI remotes for you Mil.

Recent Documentary on Dieter Rams by Gary Hustwit coming to BBC soon. Must watch for any design enthusiasts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007tp6

Any tips for affordable tv stands? Looking for something sub 500 that's 125-150cm wide. They are all either super glossy and cheap looking, too small or too wide, or cost a grand.

Anyone have experience with Farrow & Ball paints. Is a undercoat/primer really needed? If so thinking to keep the cost down and use Dulux for undercoat/primer.

Plan would be 1x coat undercoat/primer, then 2x top coats, according to what Farrow & Ball recommend.

Decorators we've had in to quote have said we can get away with 3x top coats. However, we're not 100% convinced having sampled the paints on a white wall versus a cream/light grey wall. Plus 3x top coats will push the price up of what already is, expensive paint

rich my mrs is obsessed with F&B. the only issue we have had is when painting on MDF (new fitted wardrobe). the cheap MDF primer we used meant the 1st coat of F&B took almost a week to dry. subsequent layers were quick though and it came out very well. this was there eggshell stuff for interior wood, not walls. for walls we have always used shit primer and it has come out well

also it is worth noting that F&B colours are very hard to match by B&Q etc. we tried to get a cheapo version of studio green and it looked fucking terrible. way too light.

Looked at Auro and Earthborn too as we wanted to go "eco friendly", but settled on F&B due to the greater range of colours they had, and when it came to price there wasn't much between the three.

We're using F&B for the top coats for sure. Just thinking whether we can save a bit for the primer/undercoat.

Majority of colours we've chosen are light tones, apart from two that are mid tone. The F&B guy said we can get away with a MT primer for all of them. Though not sure why MT instead of W&LT.

Reading reviews on F&B of their primers they seem like a nightmare for application even for the pros, so may just end up with a tub of £20 white matt emulsion (similar to the one Andy posted!).

Not sure I’d agree they’re rubbish. Coverage can be hit and miss though depending on what surface you’re applying it to. Most surfaces will require at least 2 coats in my experience.

I’ve done all my rooms in F&B, I’ve used wevet, inchyra, calamine, all white, down pipe, oval room blue, light blue etc

For the money Little Greene does better paint imo

Will be covering previously painted walls. Plan to use their modern emulsion for walls and ceilings, and estate eggshell for wordwork. From the samples (estate emulsion) that we applied on the wall, they seem to go on okay.

Sydneyking, you bother with their primers at all?

If anyone’s interested I have an original robin day recliner that I had reupholstered last summer and never used that I’d sell cheap, just got back from holiday and need the money sadly

It’s missing the arms but wouldn’t cost that much to have some made, it’s got new fabric, webbing etc and looks like a new chair from twenty twenty one.

I have a few other robin days bits id let go cheap too if anyone’s after anything in particular