Sent down
An Oxford education undoubtedly gives you an enviable academic training, an influential field of peers and a leg up into the most desirable professions. But of all the things Oxford graduates might remember most fondly about the old Alma mater, I just can’t imagine ‘the furniture’ even registers.
By Halo, the new Oxford Collection celebrates privilege, ivory towers, good grades and rowing. I trust the Tutor’s Chair, above, comes smelling of pipe smoke, surreptitious drinking and mildewed corduroy.*
*I learned everything I know about collegiate universities from Educating Rita
Saw this in yesterday’s G2 too and well, perhaps being from a red brick uni, it leaves me cold. Perhaps if they launched a range of furniture in bright colours with pseudo sick and beer stains i’d feel at least a tinge of nostalgia. Hope both of you are well.
Shame they couldn’t even spell “University” correctly on the sideboard…
Oh WOW! I hadn’t even noticed that. That’s brilliant. Or maybe the whole collection is actually a sly comment on falling educational standards.
Thanks Debra. Yes, I went to an ex-poly myself so it’d be less of a Chesterfield sofa and more a slashed banquette mended with masking tape. We’re both good thanks – My Friend with baby is returning soonish, and they’re all doing great.