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Habitat 1972 colourways

Habitat is a shop that specialises in well designed homewares at reasonable prices. Something of a phenomenon in the early seventies, it pioneered things like orange enamelled saucepans and avocado crockery.

For Englishmen of a certain age this reference summons up a pallette of such abiding ghastliness that he may break out in hives.

A sovereign remedy is to sit the victim in a room with a Royal Doulton tea service of a restrained floral motif until his BP has returned to below 160/95.