OKA Direct

OKA (OKA Direct) is a British luxury furniture and home accessories retailer founded in 1999 by Annabel Astor, Sue Jones and Lucinda Waterhouse. OKA now has 11 shops across the UK together with British, European and American websites and a catalogue business.

History

OKA started as a mail order company in 1999, before opening its first shop in 2000. The idea for an interiors business came to Annabel when she was struggling to find good quality, stylish furniture at an affordable price to furnish a house in Florida. Since the beginning, Annabel, her sister-in-law Sue Jones and friend Lucinda Waterhouse have travelled all over the Far East to source products for the range and still do the buying today. The initial product range was 'rattan' for the first OKA catalogue – which was photographed in Jane Churchill and Bruce Oldfield's homes - followed by painted wooden furniture, alongside replicas of 18th century blue and white porcelain and a range of Chinoiserie furniture. Today, OKA is known for its 'inspirational' lifestyle lookbook which feature three different interior designed homes every spring, summer and autumn, and the brand has been described by interiors journalists as 'elegantly bohemian'. OKA has two flagships showrooms in the UK that house the entire collection: Froxfield, an 8,000 sq ft showroom and a smaller garden room outside, and the Chelsea flagship showroom on Fulham Road opened in 2010 with three floors, becoming OKA's biggest showroom. The other shops are located in Abingdon, Froxfield, Sunninghill, Harrogate, Parsons Green, Marlow, Notting Hill and Saffron Walden.

Oka

Oka or OKA may refer to:

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Čoka

Čoka (Serbian Cyrillic: Чока, pronounced [t͡ʃôka]; Hungarian: Csóka, pronounced [ˈt͡ʃoːkɒ]; German: Tschoka; Slovak: Čoka) is a town and municipality in the North Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 4,028, while Čoka municipality has 11,398 inhabitants.

History

The first written record about Čoka was made in 1247. It was part of a feudal tenure of which landowners were often changed. Later the settlement was abandoned due to the dense Cuman incursions at the end of the 13th century, but it was rebuilt again in the 14th century. In 1552, it was under Ottoman administration. At that time, it had a sparse population of 13 people, and at the end of the 16th century, the hamlet dwellers numbered 4 Serb families.

In the first half of the 18th century, the Ottoman administration was replaced by the Habsburg one and according to 1717 data, there were 40 Serb houses in the village of which number increased to 192 until the middle of the 18th century, and in 1787, the number of population increased to 1,191 people. In 1796, the tenure owner Lőrinc Marcibányi had Hungarians settled here that Slovaks followed then., which resulted in a rapid population growth and as early as the middle of the 19th century, the population numbered 2,739 people which increased to 4,239 until 1910. According to 1910 census, Hungarians were the dominant ethnic group in the village, while there existed a sizable ethnic Serb community as well.

Ōoka

Ōoka or Ooka (大岡（おおおか）, Ōoka, "large hill") may refer to:

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Direct

Direct may refer to:

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Direct (Tower of Power album)

Direct is a 1981 live in-studio album by Tower of Power. It was their only album for the direct-to-disc record label Sheffield Lab. It also marked the return of original guitarist Willie James Fulton, not heard from since 1972's Bump City, and the last album to feature saxophonist Lenny Pickett. Mark Sanders plays drums on this album. Between this album and their 1987 comeback album Power they would record the sessions that later became the Dinosaur Tracks CD. Besides that, save for the original single release of "Simple As That" (from the same Dinosaur Tracks sessions), this would be their last new release until 1987. It contained mostly songs from their previous albums but included new stuff as well.

Direct would later be released with alternate takes on CD as Direct PLUS in 1997.

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Side One

Direct (EP)

Direct is the title of The 77s' second EP, released in 2002 on the band's own Fools of the World label.

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