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Put your feet up (more Hygge Chic)

— by Alyson Walsh

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Tonne Goodman photo: Arthur Elgort

Still thinking about getting hygge, I bumped into a friend-of-a-friend at a local market. Deborah Reyner is an ex-rag trader who has worked in both fashion design and forecasting but for the last 22-years has run her own home decor business. Formerly known as DWCD (Desire Will Courage Determination) Home & Gift; purveyor of handmade cushions, lavender bags, and doorstops stocked by Mulberry. Deborah was ‘doing a little cottage industry but the cottage got too big,’ when she came up with the idea of making tuffets (you know, Little Miss Muffet sat on one). Essentially, a coil of wool covered in a beautiful fabric and handmade in Wales. ‘It’s a friendly shape and really comfy because the wool filling doesn’t squash down,’ Deborah tells me, ‘I was determined to make something that wasn’t filled with polystyrene or synthetic material.’ And so, Tuffet.Co was born.

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The best-selling tuffet is this grey Melton classic. Perfect with a pair of mahabis chic, indoor-outdoor wool slippers, available HERE.

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‘What I really like about the tuffet is that it’s ageless,’ she continues, ‘And I like the fact that men like it, too – and, unlike my cushions, it’s less likely to cause a domestic conflict! Men sometimes have an absolute aversion to cushions, I had one woman buying them in secret and smuggling them home.’

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mahabis with rjukan red sole, available HERE.

According to Deborah, the best way to use your tuffet is to sit on a sofa with a glass of wine and put your Aran sock-clad feet up. Hygge-style. But there are other uses, customers tell her that because of its height the tuffet is popular with kids, can be used to rest sheet music on when practising the bassoon (this is East Dulwich, after all) and as a prop when performing physiotherapy exercises.

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The good news is that Sam Robinson at lifestyle boutique The Cross has just commissioned a number of tuffets (made from this colourful rug) to go on display in store. The Tuffet.Co website is coming soon but in the meantime, there’s a Facebook page HERE and you can contact Deborah at [email protected] and on 0787 321 5200

And here’s a selection of Hygge-tastic socks – as well as some snazzy styles to wear with flat shoes.

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