You may already have a classic design piece or future furniture icon in your home

As retro furniture prices soar, consider that you might already own classic pieces

A nice mid-century sideboard is easy to acquire offering aesthetic quality with practical storage and a surface for display. Pictures: Ryland Peters & Small

Let's bring the word bockety back into common parlance with its precision for describing the unsteady state of a table leg needing a piece of folded cardboard placed underneath to restore its equilibrium.

I hadn’t heard it for years and even then it was colloquial, confined to Cork and an older generation, or so I thought.