Where do you get them from? It's always been a plan of mine to have a go at converting an old bang seat into an armchair once I have the time and the space.
Regarding the prices, they can get very silly very quickly. There was an antiques shop in Chelsea that sold a lot of aerospace-pieces-as-sculpture, and I once went in and had a chat with the owner. He said that getting hold of genuine pieces was getting harder, as the disposal regs were tightened, and that a large chunk of the cost was in labour - if you're spending hundreds of hours stripping and polishing components, then that can easily add a couple of grand to the cost. But these guys do seem very pricey.
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Date: 2010-05-03 01:18 pm (UTC)Regarding the prices, they can get very silly very quickly. There was an antiques shop in Chelsea that sold a lot of aerospace-pieces-as-sculpture, and I once went in and had a chat with the owner. He said that getting hold of genuine pieces was getting harder, as the disposal regs were tightened, and that a large chunk of the cost was in labour - if you're spending hundreds of hours stripping and polishing components, then that can easily add a couple of grand to the cost. But these guys do seem very pricey.