Fashion For Home describe their Houston lounge chair as 50s Scandinavian influenced. There's certainly one Scandinavian designer who seems to have influenced this design: Arne Jacobsen and his 1958 Egg and Swan chairs.
Author: Frances Ambler
La Lettera 22 print by Emily Isles
We've already been talking about Italian design today, thanks to the Minimum Design books. So, here's a follow-up with Emily Isles's La Lettera 22 print, part of her Italian Invention series.
Minimum Design books: introductions to major twentieth-century designers
Minimum Design is an interesting series of books which had somehow passed us by until now. Each of the 25 books in the series focuses on a different designer and looks at their impact on everyday life.
Freddy Sofa by Linea
Fornasetti Multiplette cycling frieze from Cole & Son
Fornasetti's Multiplette cycling frieze, produced for Cole & Son, harks back to the glory days of Italian cycling in the early twentieth-century.
Lasse oak sideboard from Fashion For Home
Retro looks adapted for contemporary life – that's the Lasse oak sideboard from Fashion For Home.
