Chair

We need chairs. I think we need Vitra's Eames DSW chairs, but at £280 a pop they're not in the bag yet, though "a bit toppy" is far from the discouraging "NO WAY YOU'RE OFF YOUR HEAD" response that I usually get when suggesting an expensive purchase that has no wheels.

Spot the difference

There are copies. A trillion of them, on ebay. The colours are vile: red, baby blue, mint green and black (the genuine model comes in putty, ochre and ocean, natch) but the white's ok. And they're £45. We buy a cheap one and try out an expensive one in Liberty, to compare. For the life of me I can't tell the difference but as I stroke the Vitra sticker every bone in my body is screaming at me to spend £2,500 on something I could get for less than £400.

To complicate matters I have just met an Annina Vogel vintage charm bracelet on the ground floor (there's actually a toaster that pops toast out, and a weeny weeny music box that works, swoon) and if I could present it in the context of a saving made it would be helpful.