Category: Design and Interiors

Categories / Books, Design and Interiors

“Joe Colombo – Inventing the Future” Book

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If you missed out on the exhibition of the same name a couple of years ago, then the book “Joe Colombo – Inventing the Future” is a most have for any fans of the pioneering designer.

This beautiful hardback book has 320 pages, featuring 300 images including reproductions of Colombo’s hand-drawn sketches, floor plans, objects and interiors. The book also contains essays by leading experts on Colombo’s work. As befits an iconic designer, the book has been created with great attention to detail with an emphasis on quality and design, hence the hefty price tag.

The book is available to buy from the Vitra Design Museum shop, priced just under 60 Euros.

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Ella Doran Geometric repeat range

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Ella Doran's new Geometrical Repeat range includes the company's first ever wallpaper design. The pattern is a softer take on op-art made from subtly shaded pyramid shapes. 

The design has been digitally printed onto wallpaper which costs £110 a roll. If either the price or the look of that is too much, it's also available on table mats, coasters or a tray. Alternatively you could buy them all and really make yourself or visitors see shapes! 

See them online

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Modern Design Deck print by Jen Renninger

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Want a quick visual primer on key design icons? Well then you may be interested in this print of Jen Renninger's Modern Design Deck. The deck allocated a celebrated designer and a depiction of one of their famous works to each letter of the alphabet. This print shows 30 of her original illustrations for the deck (yes, some of the letters have more than one designer attached to them) going from A for Aalto to Z for Zeisel. 

This print costs $49. A selection of the designs made for individual letters, including P for Panton and E for Eames, are also available at $25 each.  

Buy it from Century Finds

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Nautical tea cup and saucer from welovekaoru

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Nautical looks are a long standing staple for retro clothing scene and they seem to be moving slowly into homewares – probably because historically most things used on boats are practical but not pretty. This nautically inspired tea cup and saucer made by welovekaoru happily fulfils both those categories. 

While the old-fashioned looking anchor bearing the words 'Steady as she goes' taps into the trend for designs bearing sailor-style tattoos, the hand-painted blue stripe against the white of the cup and saucer keeps it looking nice and fresh. It's the perfect thing for teaming with one of the many sailor inspired outfits out there. 

The tea cup and saucer costs £22. 

Buy it from My Deco

Categories / Design and Interiors

Retro midcentury-style bed by The Sleep Room

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Retro items are easy to come by for just about every corner of your home. But beds? Well, they're not so easy to find. Which is why the Retro midcentury-style bed by The Sleep Room is more than worthy of a mention.

Yes, it's a bed designed for a midcentury-influenced room, complete with angled oak legs and a tapered headboard for that period feel, along with beech slats and a choice of removable Italian cotton covers.

Take your pick of those covers from either chalk or pebble, with the bed offered as a double, king size or superking. The company will even recycle your old bed for a small feee too. If you want one of the Retro beds, they're priced from £745.

Find out more at The Sleep Room website

Categories / Christmas, Design and Interiors

Folk Art Coasters

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The design on these coasters has clearly been influenced by Scandinavian folk art, featuring a pair of green birds.

The other element of the design is a white Christmas bauble, making these coasters ideal for this time of year, although the design is subtle enough and not in overly Christmassy colours, so you could probably use them after the festive season has passed. The coasters are made from a cardboard-like heavy duty paper and are sold in a set of 12.

They cost $9 (around £6) from Sprout Home.