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Seats of London

Now here’s a question for you: who's heard of a moquette? Well, I can tell you that it’s the densely patterned carpet-like fabric that covers the seats of London’s Tubes, buses, trams and Overground trains. And the thing is, despite its long history, it’s never been fully documented – until now.

In conjunction with the London Transport Museum, the author Andrew Martin has just written a comprehensive, richly illustrated and hugely readable history of moquette. Published by Safe Haven Books, Seats of London – a field guide to London Transport moquette patterns is a 192-page absorbing and surprising guide to the many dozens of different moquette patterns that have graced the capital’s public transport system for more than a hundred years.

And why am I bringing this to your attention? Well, I have no shame, so I’m ruthlessly plugging the fact that I’ve contributed a photographic image to this fine book – and if that’s not enough to make you rush out and buy a copy, then I don’t know what is.

Seriously… this is a lovely book, a ‘must’ for anyone interested in fabric design and London’s Underground transport system, and I was more than happy to be asked to provide a photograph. It’s one that’s here on Flickr, in my short Eltham Palace series.

www.safehavenbooks.co.uk

Taken on: October 10, 2019

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