Category: Design and Interiors

The French company Jielde has been making lighting since 1950 – and the Jielde Signal floor lamp looks like it could well have come from the original range.

This vintage-style design is constructed in steel, coloured in a wide range of colours (many considerably brighter than the black above), using articulated armed to offer the right light for your task and a 40w bulb to deliver it.

Not the easiest thing to find in the UK, but you can pick it up at the Aram Store and online at the Conran Shop, price around the £270 mark.

Find out more at the Conran Store website

Large or small, desk or floor, Habitat has a Photographic lamp for you.

Based on vintage photographers' lamps, the range includes clamp, desk and floopr lamps, all with the same distinctive head, with the non-clamp versions also offering up adjustable heads and a pendant that is height adjustable.

The finish is a powder-coated metal, with prices varying depending on size – starting at £29, topping out at £169 for the 168cm-tall giant floor version.

Find out more at the Habitat website

We though the glass version was pricey, but that seems like a bargain compared to the Louis Poulsen PH Gold Artichoke suspension lamp.

PH of course stands for Poul Henningsen, the designer of the original lamp 50 years back for the Langeliniepavillonen restaurant on the Copenhagen waterfront – those leaves becoming an icon of 20th century design.

This ultra-expensive version is a limited edition of just 50, all numbered, 840mm in diameter and with leaves gilded in 24-carat gold over the original copper surface, the finished with a clear varnish. How expensive? Well, only Premier League footballers and Lotto winners need apply – it's £100,000.

Find out more at the Panik Design website

A modern design, but the perfect seat for any wannabe James Bond villain – the Fritz Hansen Space lounge chair by Jehs + Laub.

Vert 1960s in look, this easy chair is 'designed from the idea of the comfortable feeling of sitting in a hand' would you believe. Not sure what sitting in a hand feels like, but we can only assume it's fairly pleasant. In terms of specifics, it offers a lacquered shell, leather upholstery in a choice of three colours and a base of lacquered steel matching your colour choice.

Prices start at just over £1,800.

Find out more at the Nest website