There’s definitely something of the Bond villain about this Cole armchair, designed by Alex Dreyer and available from Habitat.
The egg-shaped and hand-upholstered chair is designed to be ‘as comfortable as it looks’, consisting of a moulded polyurethane foam frame with a steel base and a chcie of four leathers – brown, bronze, white and black. And each is available with a matching footstool for those lazy days.
The chairs retail for £1,199.
It’s apparently Geek Week at the Bye Bye Tokyo website, which means a load of new retro gaming and computing t-shirts.
And they’re quite eye-catching too, with images including the Pac-Man and Nintendo featured here, as well as Space Invaders and computing images, such as mouse pointers and keyboards.
Prices start at 19.90 Euros, which is just short of £14.
There seems to be a trend for reissuing vintage posters right now and while this Present & Correct Endangered Species poster isn’t actually old, it’s certainly got the look of an old school poster.
Part art, part public information service, the poster is an alphabet of endangered species in the UK, each letter featuring a textbook-like image of the living thing in decline. And that blue and brown colour scheme only adds to the retro feel.
Sized at A2 and printed on recycled paper, you can pick one of these up for £17.50 online.
Find out more at the Present & Correct website
A quirky way to keep your photos safe – this hand-bound Scrabble Board photo album.
Designed by Ryan McAbery, the cover for this hand-bound book has been made from a reclaimed Scrabble board, ‘photos’ is spelled out in authentic tiles and Stonehenge fine art paper has been used for this book.
48 pages in total, you can pick up the album for $15 (around £7.50).
Find out more at the MixtGoods website
Want to own a TV legend’s house? Well, now you can because Fred Dibnah’s house and workshops are up for sale at auction.
If you are from the UK, Fred needs no introduction. If you aren’t, let’s just say he was a small man in a flat cap from Bolton, obsessed with the country’s industrial heritage – and spend more or less every year from the mid-1970s on our screens telling us about it.
The property featured regularly on those shows. Built in 1851, it has everything you would expect from a three-bedroom family home, but with a cottage theme and mock beams. It also backs onto a river and is sold with Fred’s workshops, his equipment and the mining shaft he dug in his last series.
Offers are invited between £300,000 – £350,000.
The word ‘bar’ usually conjures up images of boat-shaped nightmares made of plastic and fake leather. The Leonhard Pfeifer walnut Mini Bar is a far more stylish affair.
This retro-styled walnut bar with oak legs can be used as a small table if you’re not offering the drinks. But open it up and you it reveals your collection of bottles, as well as having a shelf for extra storage.
Available in the walnut/oak here or in all oak (if you want something lighter), it’s available from the Hidden Art Shop for £285.
Find out more from the Hidden Art Shop website
