Alex James

Slow Life | 4 October 2008

Second-hand heaven

issue 04 October 2008

The tent had been a big hit over the summer. They called it a tent, but it was big enough for elephants and tightropes: a big top as big as a ballroom and just as plush, lined and interlined like a lush pair of curtains, certainly ridiculous, but pretty and practical.

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