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Have you met Heal’s bronze cat?

Sitting elegantly on a spiral staircase is a shop mascot, a famous cat that once turned the head of Dodie Smith, author of 101 Dalmatians.Heal’s is the shop, and their furniture store was designed by commissioned by Ambrose Heal and designed by his cousin, and best friend, Cecil Brewer, and it was Brewer who introduced the idea of the distinctive spiral staircase that is such a major feature of the building.
And up here, on a small art deco plinth, sits a cat.It was designed by the French
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