Over 40 years after its launch, the Colombo desk lamp still looks ahead of its time.
As the name suggests, the lamp was designed by Joe Colombo, back in 1962. It fires out indirect light via a perspex diffuser, with a lacquered steel base keeping it in place (and adding a touch more style).
Probably too good to hide away in an office – especially when it retails for £1,237.
Find out more at the Panik Design website
Nothing quite says ‘I’m the boss’ like the Arne Jacobsen Oxford office chair.
This classic design was first produced by Jacobsen in 1962 for St Catherine’s College, Oxford, but is now in wider circulation via Fritz Hansen. The upholstered swivel chair has an upper section of moulded wood, with a base of satin polished aluminium. And like all good office chairs, there’s plenty of scope to rise up and down via a gaslift mechanism.
If a bonus or a big contract comes your way, it sells from £993.
Find out more at the Skandium website
Minox has introduced the perfect pocket-sized camera – the Leica M3 with gold finish.
Packing those classic Leica looks (albeit in miniature), this 5 megapixel camera has a 1.5-inch screen, 32MB of storage and an SD card slot for boosting it further.
Sold in a satin-lined wooden box, it will sell for £319.
London Transport Museum has found a use for its old rolls of hard-wearing Moquette fabric – creating the London Transport Museum’s Moquette furniture range.
Moquette was used on bus and tube seats from the 30s through to the 70s, a tough fabric able to take the wear and tear of constant daily use. But it wasn’t just functional – designers were constantly brought in to liven up the fabric, creating looks that are both stylish and very distinct to their eras.
An interesting twist on a classic casual shoe – the Fred Perry Perf leather plimsole.
The ‘Perf’ obviously means perforated – the white leather upper packed full of holes for an eye-catching effect (and quite possibly to offer your foot some breathing space too).
Other features include the gum base and embroidered Fred Perry logo – and you can pick up a pair for £55.
A very new design with a distinctly late 60s look – the BiOrb Life aquarium.
Yes, if they kept fish in Space 1999, it would have been in something like this, with a coloured acrylic finish and clear front, along with a circular port at the top that offers access to the actual fish and water. Clever stuff too – an easy-to-change filter system makes fish keeping a doddle, while an LED lighting system changes to create sunrise, sunlight, sunset and moonlight.
Three sizes available (30, 45 and 60 litre), with prices starting at around £190 when it launches in the next few weeks.
