Retro Comforts In Shoreditch – A Student’s Tale

Student living in East London is messy but fun. The windows rattled in the wind, but we dragged in whatever we could find. New furniture is soulless, so we bartered with old dealers. We carried a wingback through Dalston. The colours clashed, but that’s what made it home. Retro armchairs have weight, and students get that instinctively. I’ve watched half my flat pass out across two chairs, and those seats carried us.

Markets spill chairs onto the streets, and pyra-handheld.com dealers live for it. I stopped by Smithers looking for nothing, and the accent chairs were bold and weird. we had to haggle, but everyone fights to sit in it. We’ve all shoved sofas through windows. It’s part of student life. Accent chairs don’t flinch when four people pile on. Brand-new looks boring, but old sofas age into character. every creak is another laugh. When you’re moving out, the cracked window gets forgotten, but that funky accent chair is legend.

When you start student life, don’t waste time on the soulless new. Take home something with scars, and let it carry your student nights.