Our personal connection with things sometimes comes from the memories they stir inside us. Sometimes we love them for their gorgeous craftsmanship or how they symbolise the way we used to live everyday - an attachment we have with our past and identity.
Chopper for instance, is inspired by a memory from my childhood in the 1970s - by a boy called Darren, who used to wheelie around our streets on his chopper bike trying to convert us all to Chelsea fans, like him.
With Typewriter, the appeal is its charm and its history - strike a key and its springs, levers and arms connect beautifully to stamp ink into the fibres of the paper…then its carriage moves across and its bell pings!