Author: modculture

We’re big fans of Umpen Editions’ retro-inspired greetings cards, so its always a pleasure to see new ones arrive – the latest of which is Magnificent Men & Notable Gentlewomen and Beast Wishes.

Above are just two examples of the new designs. To the left is a card from the Magnificent Men & Notable Gentlewomen range, Victoriana designs with a nod to Monty Python’s pop surrealism. And to the right is a card from the Beast Wishes range, inspired by the work of Bawden and Ravilious and featuring a lion, a dog, little foxes, monkeys, a bird of paradise and the pig pictured here.

You can’t buy directly online, but if you go to the Umpen Editions website, there’s an extensive list of stockists.

Find out more at the Umpen Editions website

Plenty of Eames reissues on the market, but the Eames House Bird is probably one of the strangest.

It’s not actually an Eames creation, more of an Eames find – it was just one object found by the couple on their travels, finding a place in the living room of the Eames house for the best part of 50 years.

And now this artefact has been reproduced by Vitra, made of solid alder with a black lacquer finish and steel wire legs. It retails for £94.

Find out more at the TwentyTwentyOne website

A modern piece, but there’s a distinctly 70s vibe about the Muuto Four Vase.

Designed by Matti Klenell, the Four Vase is so called because it offers four ways to arrange your flowers from two separate pieces – the ball-shaped inner part holds the flowers in its four different sized openings according to the size of flower bouquet and the cylindrical outer part functions as vessel for the water.

The whole thing consists of mouth-blown glass, with a diameter of 21cm and a height of 23cm. It retails online for 119 Euros.

Find out more at the Finnish Design Shop website