Not the cheapest coffee table you’ll see on the market, but the Superstudio Quaderna Table is certainly a table with impact.
Designed by Superstudio in 1970 and reissued by Zanotta, it has a honeycomb core structure with white plastic laminate, which is silkscreen printed with black squares spaced at 3cm apart.
The table itself is 126 x 126 x 72 cm, so quite big – but not as big as the price. That’s a whopping £2,811.
Not the first of this kind of turntable, but a mix of retro looks and Numark’s know-how could make the PT-01USB turntable a winner.
The deck has USB connectivity and works with both PC and Mac, offering mains and battery power, a built-in monitoring speaker, +/- 10% pitch control, belt-drive motor with 33, 45 and 78 RPM settings, stereo RCA line output and headphone jack plus Numark’s EZ Vinyl Converter 2 software, making it easy to convert your tracks and drop into iTunes.
Also included is a phono cartridge, USB cable and 45 RPM adapter. No news of a price as yet, but expect it in the third quarter of 2008.
Find out more at the Numark website
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We have featured just one bed in all of Retro To Go’s history. Not that we have anything against beds – it’s just rare to find an interesting, let alone one that’s retro. But we have just found our second – the Autoban Bergere Bed.
It’s an incredibly stylish design, very much in the mid-century mould and if I was a betting man, I would say it was Scandinavian. But it’s not – the bed is out of Turkey, the work of Seyhan Ozdemir and Sefer Caglar, based on the pair’s stylish Bergere armchair.
For your money, you get an oak or walnut frame, fabric or leather upholstery and a box-like design with those cool retro curves. Not the cheapest bed on the market at £2,695, but if you are looking to make a statement in the bedroom, this will say it for you. Check the website for stockists.
Back in 2004, London’s Design Museum held an exhibition of the work of Saul Bass, producing a superbly stylish poster to go along with it. If you missed it, here’s some good news – a limited edition re-print is now available.
Saul Bass was the master of film title design thanks to his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. This poster was inspired by Bass’ titles for Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder and is sized at 1000 x 700mm and printed on parilux matt white 150 gsm paper.
Just £15 buys you one – but don’t hang about, once the new stock has sold through, no more will be printed.
Find out more at the Design Museum Store website
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Looking both retro and very modern at the same time, the Michael Young PXR-6 digital watch is a stylish timepiece that doesn’t cost the earth.
Young has updated his previous PXR-5 watch, adding waterproofing, new buttons and an improved blue night light, but keeping the same minimalist look and more or less the same functionality/detailing – day/date, adjustable one-inch wide velcro bracelet (black is standard, others are available) and a stainless steel, black or gold casing.
It’s exclusive to Charles & Marie and on pre-order – because it’s expected to sell out in no time. Yours for $130 (around £65).
Find out more at the Charles & Marie website
Shag prints never hang around for long, so here’s a heads up on the latest arrivals a day before they go on sale to the general public.
Both are part of the A to Z series, with the new additions titled F for French and G is for Grim Reaper. The reasons for those titles being pretty self-explanatory. The two prints are 12-colour serigraphs, sized at 12 x 14 inches, limited to 250 and of course, signed by the artist.
Each one retails for $110 (around £55).
