Seats of London

This title is a Field Guide to London Transport Moquette Patterns. Published in association with the London Transport Museum which has a comprehensive moquette archive, Andrew Martin has written 'Seats of London'; a delightful, surprising and covetable guide to all these patterns, from the first horse bus to the latest Tube train.

Moquette is the carpet-like fabric covering the seats we sit on in London’s Tubes, buses, trams and Overground trains – and here is a brilliant, colourful guide to all its patterns.

London Transport has always wanted the best design, be it Charles Holden’s superb art deco Tube stations on the Piccadilly Line, its elegant Johnson typeface or Harry Beck’s Tube map. This pursuit of excellence has extended to the design of the fabrics it covers our bus and Tube seats with.