Author: modculture

We featured one lounge chair from Geoffrey Harcourt recently and here’s another – the Geoffrey Harcourt F978 lounge chair.

For me, it’s a stunner. This 1968 seat screams the decade in every detail – from the shape, to the polished tulip-style base and the red and white colour scheme. In terms of specifics, the chair consists of a white polyurethane shell mixed with red Super Bultex foam and dacrom seating, with that base made of aluminium.

If you have £1,776 in the bank, you can buy one now.

Find out more at the Nest website

Not to be confused with the Eero Aarnio version, the Pierre Paulin Mushroom Pouf is actually an earlier take on the fungus shape.

It’s actually companion piece to the Mushroom Chair, designed in 1960 as a smaller, cheaper and slightly more quirky mushroom-shaped seat and now back in production via Artifort. The whole structure is cushioned, with a wide choice of boldly-coloured fabrics to choose from to finish things off.

It stands around 380m in height, with a diameter of 460mm, selling for £383.

Find out more a the Nest website

Stamp collecting might just become cool with the introduction of the Royal Mail’s British Design Classics postage stamps.

Launching on 13th January 2009, the stamps feature 10 icons of British design from the 1930s to the 1960s, including the likes of the Mini, the mini skirt, the Penguin paperback, Concorde, the red phone box and the London Underground map, all stylishly printed on a stamp with designer’s name underneath.

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