Author: modculture

Here's something rather cool if you want some rare (and soon to be rarer) design, Vitsoe is selling its final 50 Dieter Rams-designed 621 side tables as part of its 50th anniversary.

The 621 Side Table was commissioned in 1962, but sales ended in the 1980s, so this is a seriously rare piece, especially as it will be sold in its original packaging. Produced as a timeless and functional piece of plastic design, it was originally sold in two different finishes (black and off-white) and in two different sizes. All variations will be available as part of this limited reissue.

Prices will be £195 (high) and £175 (low), with sales commencing around midday on 4th September 2009. We don't expect them to be around long.

Find out more at the Vitsoe website

We've featured the Midcentury Show in the past, but for the first time the show is heading to Bristol – specifically on Sunday October 11th 2009.

The venue is Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol, BS4 3EH, taking place from 10am until 4pm with admission £5 (children under 14 free). For that money, you can check out and buy furniture and collectables from the middle of the last century from the likes of Eames, Nelson, Jacobsen and Aalto, with dealers on display including The Modern Warehouse, Omnipod, Kirk Modern, Fragile Design, Pure Imagination, metroretro, Orange and Brown, Twentieth Century Interiors, De Vreugde Design, Fragile, 20th Century Collectables, Pink-Flamingos, 20th Century Collectables, Homescape, Mark Parrish, Emma loves Retro, Inretrospect, Designs of Modernity and many more.

Check out the website for more details.

Midcentury Show website

If I was pushed on a year (without knowing otherwise) for the Fontana Arte Huna Suspension Lamp, I would have guessed at 1930s. But it actually dates back to 1965.

From Archivio Storico, the light certainly has that 1930s utilitarian feel, albeit with a lot more class than the kind of thing you might have found in a factory or warehouse. In terms of construction, the Huna offers a painted aluminium pendant with black or white interior, complete with a staineless steel suspension cable and transparent power cable.

If you want one in your home, it sells for £174.

Find out more at the Panik Design website