Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Down The Rabbit Hole giant op art wall decal

Rabbit

Want to turn your pad into a 60s psychedelic nightmare? You need to invest in this Down The Rabbit Hole giant wall decal.

If any of your friends suffer from vertigo or are easy freaked out, you perhaps need to think twice before you buy because this is huge and very imposing. Sized at 12ft x 10ft, it's like having a tunnel into a Bridget Riley painting – which could be either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your mental state I suspect.

This custom-made vinyl creation isn't cheap at $850, but if you want impact, this has it and much, much more.

Find out more at the babygeared website

Via Nook

Categories / Design and Interiors, eBay watch

eBay watch: 1970s Gae Aulenti Gaetano work table

Gaetano

Well over 30 years old and still looking cutting edge – the Gaetano work table by Gae Aulenti is likely to stay that way for some years to come.

An example of this 1971 design is on eBay right now, currently at a very reasonable £175 with four days left (as I write). It's worth checking out the close-up shots on the eBay site for the detail on this, looking like an upmarket workbench, it has that glass top, with two metal plinths in black with red detailing supporting each side and what look like bike handle bars supporting the glass.

Great for everyday use, but especially cool as a quirky office desk, it's certainly a nice thing to own.

Find out more and see more images at the eBay website

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Vitsoe Post-War plastics exhibition poster by NB: Studio

Postwar

The actual show might have passed, but this incredibly eye-catching poster for Post-War plastics: Dieter Rams’s innovations in design, 1956 to 1974 is still available – and doesn't cost a fortune.

The poster is the work of NB: Studio and is being offered in limited numbers online, but once they're gone, they're gone. Design fans might apprecate that the poster uses an original photograph from the launch of Vitsoe’s Dieter Rams-designed 601 chair. The rest of you will probably just appreciate the overall stylish looks.

Whatever you like about it, the poster can be yours for just £15.

Vitsoe website

Via Switched On Art

Categories / Design and Interiors

Final 50 Dieter Rams-designed 621 side tables to go on sale at Vitsoe

Vitsoe_side

Here's something rather cool if you want some rare (and soon to be rarer) design, Vitsoe is selling its final 50 Dieter Rams-designed 621 side tables as part of its 50th anniversary.

The 621 Side Table was commissioned in 1962, but sales ended in the 1980s, so this is a seriously rare piece, especially as it will be sold in its original packaging. Produced as a timeless and functional piece of plastic design, it was originally sold in two different finishes (black and off-white) and in two different sizes. All variations will be available as part of this limited reissue.

Prices will be £195 (high) and £175 (low), with sales commencing around midday on 4th September 2009. We don't expect them to be around long.

Find out more at the Vitsoe website

Categories / Design and Interiors

The Midcentury Show heads to Bristol

Midcentury_show

We've featured the Midcentury Show in the past, but for the first time the show is heading to Bristol – specifically on Sunday October 11th 2009.

The venue is Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol, BS4 3EH, taking place from 10am until 4pm with admission £5 (children under 14 free). For that money, you can check out and buy furniture and collectables from the middle of the last century from the likes of Eames, Nelson, Jacobsen and Aalto, with dealers on display including The Modern Warehouse, Omnipod, Kirk Modern, Fragile Design, Pure Imagination, metroretro, Orange and Brown, Twentieth Century Interiors, De Vreugde Design, Fragile, 20th Century Collectables, Pink-Flamingos, 20th Century Collectables, Homescape, Mark Parrish, Emma loves Retro, Inretrospect, Designs of Modernity and many more.

Check out the website for more details.

Midcentury Show website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Cassette tape lamps from ooomydesign

Cassette tape lamps

Though the cassette tape format is all but dead as a musical format, it continues to inspire innovative design ideas, including these cassette tape lamps from ooomydesign. The work of Vanessa Moreno, they are made by typing the cassettes together, using plastic zip ties and she suggests that it's simple enough to replace some of the tapes with your own favourites. As the image shows, when the light is switched on the plastic of the casing produces a great effect. 

The lamps are produced in various forms which vary in cost from 35 euros for a small lamp, up to 140 euros for the floor lamp.

See them online