Footstools that’ll knock your socks off

FESTIVAL time is hard on the feet. Either you’re schlepping from one show to the next, with much pounding of the streets, or your journey to work is twice as long as normal with all that swerving to avoid lost tourists and wackily dressed students clogging up the pavements.

So it’s about time to put your feet up – and those hard-working tootsies deserve to rest and recover in style. And it doesn’t get much more stylish than this ottoman, made from grade-A Burchell’s zebra skins, a snip at £2400.

But always supposing you don’t have that much cash to splash on a footstool, old favourites such as Marks & Spencer and Harveys can come up with the good-looking goods at a fraction of the cost.