Yesterday we featured the Mole chair by Sergio Rodrigues, but ClassiCon has also reissued one of the designer's 1970s seats too – the Kilin lounge chair.
This Brazilian mid-century gem actually dates back to 1973, but follows the same comfort with style principles, offering a handmade chair with solid eucalyptus frame that's been stained with clear varnish, along with a sling back and seat of either leather or natural cow hide.
If that appeals, you can buy one online, priced from £2,117.
One of our favourite classic retailers is offering something very special for just one week only, with 20 per cent off the entire John Smedley range at the newly-relaunched and improved John Smedley online store.
Yes, 20 per cent off the lot, from those classics to the latest styles, which makes it pretty much the perfect time to top up the collection of lightweight summer knitwear, much of it made from John Smedley’s soft and light Sea Island Cotton to keep you cool when the temperatures rise. Free UK delivery too in case you're wondering.
The offer only runs until this Sunday (28th June), so there isn't much time to hang around. If you want to add to your wardrobe, just enter the offer code JSJ22 at the basket stage of your transaction – your 20 per cent will then be knocked off the price. Follow the link below to visit the shop and check out the range.
It screams the 1970s, yet the Tom Dixon Fluoro Shade floor light is a very much a modern-day piece of design.
Made of blow-moulded polycarbonate, the lamp then receives an external powder coating in that matt fluorescent orange to give it that eye-catching finish, a 60w bulb throwing out the light via the open space.
It coems with a 3-metre cable and foot switch and is designed to be used either individually or in a group. Not that buying a few will be cheap – each one retails for £215.
Another stylish bit of salvage – these 1930s vintage ceiling lights at Elemental.
They go by the name of the 'Bauhaus Lamp', but we don't think there's any firm connection to the German design house. Saying that, they are German, made sometime in the 1930s and constructed from bakelite in a domed shape with eye-catching detailing on the rear of the lights.
If you want something just a little different for your home (especially if you have a high ceiling), these could be worth a look. The only downside is a lack of price on the site – frustratingly, you can only access price information once you register with Elemental, which probably scares off more customers than it encourages.
A Brazilian mid-century classic is now back on the shelves – the ClassiCon Mole lounge chair, designed by Sergio Rodrigues.
It's a chair built in 1961 as much for comfort as style, a handmade seat with a frame of solid eucalyptus wood that's stained, with clear varnish, matched up with leather webbing and upholstery in polyurethane with polyester fibre, then covered in leather. if that isn't sumptuous for you, there's even a matching footstool for really kicking back.
It has a permanent place in the MoMA in New York and can have a permanent place in your home for a price – and that price is around £5,700.
Fancy cruising round the streets on a vintage-style scooter, but don't want to do further damage to the environment? You need one of these Zepii retro-styled electric scooters.
Obviously being both new and electric, this isn't one for the purists. But if you want something cheap and nippy for getting around town, it might be worth a look. Taking its design inspiration from the vintage Vespas (not to mention some nifty lights and a backrest), the Zepii offers between 50 and 60km of travel from an eight hour charge from your mains, costing around 8p for 40 miles of riding and of course, throwing out absolutely no emissions. Top speed? We don't know, but we suspect you'll not be burning rubber when the lights change.
If you want one, check out the Zepii website for the lowdown, with prices around the £849 mark, which seems pretty reasonable for something that costs peanuts to run. See over for another image of the scoot.
