Zen Furniture & Interiors

Oh my Budda. They have the Biggest Budda ever, that once sat cross legged in the window and now sits at the back, on sale and yet still £599 (reduced price?!)… I wonder who would pay this? Not me, that’s for certes. However, they do have some cool lamps, clocks and mirrors which although some are rather gaudy (all gold leafy and faux looking) they have some good buys in the sale section.
It’s all rather reasonable, but I don’t think it’s the style which I would choose, there’s not really much character!

There sure a lot of places around here to get hold of a gold plated Buddha statue aren’t there? Well this is one of them and it’s probably There sure a lot of places around here to get hold of a gold plated Buddha statue aren’t there? Well this is one of them and it’s probably about the third best place to come and get a gold plated Buddha statue on the whole of Bold Street. It doesn’t sound like much of compliment and that’s because it isn’t really. There are some nice tables and lamps and bits and bobs but it’s all done a lot better up the road at Red Lotus and in far more interesting and exotic feeling surroundings. I don’t know why it matters that I buy gold plated Buddha statues in somewhere draped with red and purple silks that smells of a joss stick bonfire but apparently it really does.
I can also assure you that when I was last there, the sale had most definitely finished. Unless it was some kind of weird reverse sale that made everything needlessly expensive. I’m pretty sure I just invented that though.

Part one of the Zen Furniture experience and I find myself in a world of Buddhas, little Chinese fellas with sticks and a gold effect deer’s head to be mounted, urm, God knows frankly? Maybe there is a new trend for gentleman club interiors with a modern twist? Hunting cabin/​Tony Soprano chic?
Is it just Liverpool or is a nationwide obsession with all things eastern and Buddhist? I know we have a reputation as being space cadets but this faux Eastern stuff is everywhere. Are we scousers so buried under the strain of modern living and the hustle and bustle of our work-​a-​day lives that we need to turn our homes into temples?
I guess I can see how filling the house with lots of little bald fellas chubbier than myself will increase my tranquility and one-​ness with the world.
The funny side to the commercialism of ancient traditions was experienced by myself whilst in here as a couple wanted to find something meaningful for their home and spotted ‘ahhh, a li’l cryin’ fella’, ‘no, no’ said the milf saleswoman ‘that’s a meditating Buddha’, the woman looked puzzled and pointed to the box ‘it says, li’l crying priest der… not sure how dat ‘elps me chi?’, ‘er, well at least it’s not you crying?’, ‘oh yeah’.
Sold…and yes milf.

Coffee tables
Console tables
Side-​tables
Floor lamps
Wall lamps
Light-​boxes
Mirrors
Statues
& Buddahas
A few doors down from Zen Furniture, the company have a more interesting and eye-​catching interiors shop with smaller pieces of furniture. Alongside the obligatory wooden coffee tables, bookshelves and side tables there are some beautiful, antique silver chests, fun lamps, big mirrors and hand-​carved wooden sculptures and ornaments from buddhas and hindu gods to animals. Prices are reasonable for good quality teak, oak and mango wood and there’s currently a sale on.