Beautiful furniture: Lapaloosa let loose

Let there be light:
Lampshade by Paul Smith

Lapaloosa, meaning a beautiful object or thing, is a luxe online homeware emporium for delivering a mix of British bespoke design to your door. 
  It was founded by the journalist Melanie Cable-Alexander after she realised how many British making skills were dying out thanks to a magazine series she ran for Country Life magazine which took her round the country interviewing people who made beautiful objects for beautiful houses. Often, she found that many of these were the last in several generations before them.

Hot of the bench press:
Lapaloosa's relaxed but elegant style

  


Each item on apaloosa is hand-picked and curated by Melanie. Her aim is to select items that aren't just functional, they are art.

  Cable-Alexander has also founded the Slow Furniture Movement, inspired by the slow food movement, to create a general sense of awareness for the need to support and maintain British skills. Champions are Guy Salter from the Walpole Committee and Lulu Lytle of Soane Britain.