It’s a pretty good ironing board – the only crinkle might be the price (Picture: Harrods/Getty Images
Harrods, the luxury department store in the equally luxurious Knightsbridge, isn’t the kind of place you can pop in to grab a £3 meal deal.
Instead, it’s where you can casually go and buy in a pinch a nearly £4,000 ironing board.
The ‘Germanier Ironing System’ is by Laurastar, a Swiss brand that sells – you guessed it – high-end ironing equipment. It sells, among other things, £1,299 three-in-one steamers, £599 irons and a £199 ironing board cover.
The limited-edition £3,999 system, according to its product page, is a collaboration with the Swiss fashion designer Kevin Germanier known for his sustainable lines.
Indeed, for the eco-conscious with thousands of pounds to spare, the hand-assembled appliance is made of ‘upcycled materials’.
The system comes with a Germanier heart key chain from upcycled Swarovski crystals, a built-in water tank and a hand-sewn cover. All of this is meant to last a generation and comes with a smartphone app that shows you how to, well, iron.
Paris Fashion Week attendees got a glimpse of the hand-sewn board earlier this month, with marketing materials describing it as a ‘never-ending visual symphony’.
The department store is in Knightsbridge, home to some of the wealthiest people in London (Picture: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
But Britons would be forgiven for being a bit creased at the sight of the price.
Food bank usage is on the rise, there are helpful guides about what to do if you can’t pay your bills and people are reminiscing about when a weekly grocery shop costs about £30.
Inflation, in double-digits only two years ago, remains 3.8%. This doesn’t mean that prices are going down, though, rather they’re not rising as fast.
For someone to make £4,000 in a month after taxes, they need to earn around £66,000 a year. That’s just shy of double the average annual salary in the UK.
But that maths involves spending your entire month’s wage on an ironing board.
So each to their own, we suppose.
Yet the ironing system is pennies in comparison to some of the other items sold at Harrods over the years.
Some include a nearly £130,500,000 super yacht called Project Mars, a £790,000 advent calendar designed by Porsche and a bathtub made of rock crystal found in the Amazon that set someone back a cool £634,000.
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