The future comes for us all eventually. No matter how many times we have fought the good fight. So on the morning of September 1838, the HMS Temeraire, known as the ‘Fighting Temeraire’, was towed down the Thames to her final destination. On that day the artist William Turner looked upon the scene and immortalised it in what was later to become the nation’s favourite painting.
Declan Deck has invented something which he feels will change the very nature of what we consider ‘standing’ and what we consider ‘sitting’. He calls it an ‘easy-to-erect-and-collapse-one-size-fits-all-canvas-covered-chair’ (although he’s flexible on future name changes)
He thinks that perhaps a soon-to-be-launched, metal-clad, yet unsinkable boat (featuring four funnels, five decks & one lifeboat), will be the perfect place to demonstrate his new sessio-esque device. But somewhere, out in the Mid-Atlantic, sits a lonely and tone-deaf iceberg; who has a very different idea…