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Dressing Tables11 December 2003
When you were putting your make-up on this morning, where did you do it? At the kitchen table as you made breakfast, in the bathroom, or in the bedroom, sitting in front of a magnificent mahogany dressing-table, complete with triptych of mirrors?

The dressing-table was traditionally the focal point of a woman's bedroom, a shrine to her private thoughts and most feminine possessions. But is there still a place for this sometimes cumbersome piece of furniture?

Clare Jenkins has been talking to some of its fans.


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