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The Image
September 2002

HOME GROWN

If the term country furniture conjures up rustic pine, think again. Dividing her time between London and Co Carlow, Sasha Bunbury fills urban pads with fresh hay and tractor tyres - and the orders are rolling in.

Just when it seemed we might be taking interior design a little to seriously, tongue-in-cheek Sasha Bunbury has appeared on the scene, to remind us it should be fun. It all started with a present for her father's 60th birthday, when Sasha made a table by filling a perspex cube with straw from the family farm. Taken aback at first, he then decided he loved it as did lots of others, so she made more... and more.

Quickly realising that there was a gap in the market for "modern rural design that isn't pine tables and floral curtains", she set put to design pieces to address the urban/rural divide, throwing in a dollop of humour. Her design company, run between a stable yard in Co Carlow and a west London studio is called farm21..........

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