Vintage View: We show you how to find (millennial) granny chic

Few of us are lucky enough to have even a great-grandmother who recalls the Edwardian era, which is what this style is about 

Albus wall mural, €65, feathr.com.

Granny chic? The first time I was sent a press release headed by this pert new interior trend, it really put my knitting bag into an uproar. A fluffed up copywriter’s riff, it’s supposed to describe a sort of mumsy, comfy cosy, nostalgia-spattered maximalism. What were the marketing heads up to? 

My granny, with her Rothman’s Blue behind her ear, used a wheelbarrow to take her "old" furniture out to the kerb-side in about 1955, and installed the latest and the greatest the O’Connell Street-style temples had to offer.