Category: Design and Interiors

The last of the classic Braun designs have now ceased production, with the final pieces now starting to leave the shelves. We have featured the ABW31 clock and the AB1 clock in the past, but one other design is also still available via the Design Museum Shop – the Braun AB5 alarm clock by Dietrich Lubs.

It's a great piece of modernist-inspired design, dating back to 1987 and complete with luminous hands, a sweeping second hand, quartz movement, pivoting alarm switch and a clear intermittent alarm.

Good for the bedside or the office desk, one can be yours for £29.95.

Find out more at the Design Museum Shop website

Looking for a quirky light fitting with a retro twist? Check out the Ingo Maurer Campari suspension light by Raffaele Celentano.

Those aren't your average bottles, they are Campari soda bottles, designed in 1932 by Italian Futurist artist Depero. That's something to impress the neighbours with. All 10 are arranged to work as a pendant, each individually detachable (in case you get thirsty) and supported with a lengthy cable that also features a Campari bottle top.

£270 will secure you one for your home.

Find out more at the Nest website

Jonathan Adler has produced three striking tables inspired by the work of British studio potter, Hans Coper. Coper started working in 1946 and continued through the subsequent decades and here the silhouette of the table takes its cue from the sculptural style of the his work. The other styles of table available – barbell and pedestal – both also have a similarly dramatic shape.

While Coper's ceramics tend to have roughly finished oxidised surfaces, this is made of solid brass with black patina and hard rubbed edges. This model costs $895.

The Vitra Design Museum has launched a series of Classic Trays, featuring the designs of Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Alexander Girard.

The trays are constructed using high quality thermoset and sized around 46cm x 35.5cm, so not too big, but very eye-catching all the same. Inevitably that's down to the designs, which are Eden by Alexander Girard (above) from 1966, the '61 Mother and Child design by Girard (see that over the page), George Nelson's 1950 China Shop, Miller Stripe by Girard from 1973, Sea Things, which is a 1945 Charles and Ray Eames design and finally The Family, another Eames piece from 1944.

All are available to pre-order now for a September delivery, priced at £43.50. Yes, an Eames original for under £50!

Find out more at the Utility Design website

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Here's an interesting project from Ilovedust involving the ever-appealing Eames DCW chairs. The top image shows a bespoke customisation they've done of a pair of the chairs. Ilovedust have taken an 1956 TV interview between Arlene Francis and Ray and Charles Eames as their inspiration, pulling out key words and statements. These have been worked up into graphics shaped by fashionable typography and imagery from the 1950s and then hand applied to the surface of the chairs. 

For something that can be bought, the same graphics have been used to produce a limited run of faux suede cushions, available in either blue or green and costing £33 through Click for Art. Finally, there is also a print available: more details of that on the Ilovedust blog. 

Find out more about the project from the Ilovedust blog or purchase the cushion through Click for Art