It took about three years for Benedict and Daniel to finalise the design of the sofa, which came in two parts so it could fit through the door – the project had to take a back seat to clients' projects. The antique yellow paisley cushion Benedict bought as a shawl ten years ago at a tiny fair on an island outside Paris – it was restored five years after that, and then finally made into cushions in 2023. Tiny but with the proverbial good bones, the flat consists of two main rooms, a sitting room at the front of the house, and a bedroom at the back, with a miniature hallway and kitchen as you enter, and a bathroom downstairs in the house’s old coal hole.