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Sitting pretty
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To have your guests rushing to the bog is not usually the best
possible end to a dinner party, but for Tanya Dean and Nick Gant it
invariably bodes well. Together, the two artists form Bobo,
designers of individually handcrafted plastic toilet seats. Gant
explains: "Generally, people come round, have dinner, go to the loo
and the next week we get a phone call asking us to make them one."
From Monday, visitors to London's Coningsby Gallery can try some of
the "Seats of Desire" out for size. Many of them are also for sale:
for pounds 80 you can grace your loo with a seat made from recycled ...
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; ...made from wire wool and metal shavings stands alongside a six-inch steel man made from electrical components: a sparky new techno-pastoral in the making. Metalmorphosis is at The Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham St, W1 (0171- 636 7478) to 31 May
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The show with no name
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