Category: Design and Interiors

Categories / Design and Interiors, Travel

Tepper Jackson 60s-style passport holder

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Dreaming of some foreign travel to escape the winter blues? Well, in addition to the Agent Provocateur luggage highlighted earlier in the week, here's another retro travel accessory (though inspired by a different era) comes with this Tepper Jackson 60s-style passport holder. 

Like the Tepper Jackson flight bag featured a good while ago, it's got a bright Pop design. The black and white pattern, combined with the motif of the flower, looks like it could have come straight out of the Mary Quant boutique. It's practical too, with two side pockets and five card slots to hold any and all of your travel documents. 

The holder is currently on sale for £14.95, reduced from £20. You can also get several accessories in a matching design, ranging from cosmetics bags to card holders. 

Buy it online  

Categories / Design and Interiors

Classic 1950s Net and Ball Rug at the Southbank Centre

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Long time readers might recall the Net and Ball wallpaper by Absolute Zero Degrees. Well, that same 1950s design is now available for your floor, specifically the Net and Ball Rug at the Southbank Centre.

No surprise really – the design was originally produced for the carpet at the Royal Festival Hall back in 1951, the work of original architects Peter Moro and Leslie Martin, designed as the visual representation of sound. But with a ball.

The rug is part of a range of items using the classic look, including tote bags, mugs, bowls, vases and of course, that wallpaper. The rug itself is 60 x 90cm, exclusive to the Southbank Centre and sells online for £79.

Find out more at the Southbank Centre Shop website

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1970s Cassina Cab chair by Mario Bellini

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A distinctive, but very practical chair from the 1970s – the Cassina Cab chair by Mario Bellini.

It's as much about the concept as the finished product – in 1977, Bellini produced the chair using a flexible steel frame, covering it with a 'skin' of saddle leather, which is attached to the leather using four zips.

You can pick up the Cab with or without arms and in a choice of leathers, prices starting at £603.

Find out more at the Nest website

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Swifty Skates – old school skateboards and t-shirts

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Swifty is one of our favourite artists, which is why we asked him to do the latest re-design of our Modculture site. He's also certain to appeal to old school skateboard enthusiasts with his Swifty Skates range.

Just like in '76, the example above is a solid wood (specifically oak) 27-inch deck that's flat and solid, as well as being sanded and lacquered to a shine, decorated with Swifty's graphics top and bottom.

See over the page for another image and check out Swifty's site to see the other boards in the range, as well as the similarly-styled t-shirts, which sell for £25. The boards? They go from £140.

Find out more at the Swifty website

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Toys and Games

Alexander Girard Memory Game at House Industries

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If you're going to buy a children's game, make it educational and of course, stylish – which is what you get with this Alexander Girard Memory Game at House Industries.

Yes, midcentury design on a child's game, offering up that uber-stylish casing, equally hip wooden blocks (72 in total) and hours of fun for a small child. That's if you trust your child near it – you might just want to keep it on display around the home, using the wooden squares as coasters when you've got stylish guests round.

Especially when you hear it retails for $320.

Find out more at the House Industries website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Women's Fashion

Tiny Little Chairs: metal pendants featuring mid-century chair designs

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How much do you like your classic chair designs? So much so that you'd be willing to wear them as jewellery? Well, that choice can be yours now with the Tiny Little Chairs pendants from Bruxe Design. 

The necklaces are indeed both tiny, measuring 2 x 2cm each, and featuring chairs. Five chair icons in fact, all lovingly handmade on a miniature scale. There's the Pavilion pendant, which is basically Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and then the Dining pendant, a mini version of Eero Saarinen's Tulip chair. The Eames' are well represented with the Scoop, Work and Bent pendant all being modelled on their designs. 

Prices range from the seemingly affordable Bronze version of the Dining chair which retails for Canadian $140 (just over £80), to the out of my league Canadian $2500 for a gold Pavilion pendant. However, with that working out at just under £1500, that's still cheaper than the chair that inspired it.

Find out more online