Author: modculture

I love the modernist simplicity of the Tommy table lamp from Habitat.

Standing just 22cm high, it;s a steel lamp with rounded base and head, along with full adjustability for getting up close and personal with that book.

It’s also well-priced too, available for just £20.

Find out more at the Habitat website

Dating back to 1961, but now available as a reissue, is this Vitra La Fonda Armchair by Alexander Girard.

Girard was a friend of Charles and Ray Eames and was commissioned to create a restaurant interior in the Time-Life Building in New York. To furnish the dining area, he wanted chairs whose bases would fit with the rest of the interior, with the height of the backrests the same as the height of the tables.

And this is the result, developed by Eames Office as a padded plastic shell mounted on a two-piece cast aluminium base. The lining is available in a choice of colours – dark grey, black and orange covered Hopsak. And if you want one to furnish your interior, it retails for £636.

Find out more at the Utility Design website

We featured the Mondaine Swiss Railway watch back in 2006 – it’s a watch based on the clocks used in every Swiss railway station since the 1940s. Indeed, it was actually designed by one of the employees, a man called Hans Hilfiker.

It’s been used in a variety of domestic watch and clock variations since, but the newly-introduced Mondaine Swiss Railways desk clock is the most eye-catching variation I’ve seen. It keeps exactly the same face, packs in a Ronda 530 quartz movement and comes in that bold 70s-style orange casing.

If you want one on your desk, it retails for £91.08.

Find out more at the Questo Design website