Category: Design and Interiors

Forgot the wooden rubbish you'll find at just about every garden centre and DIY shop in the world, if you want to make a statement in your garden, check out this B.A-BA outdoor furniture by Marie Leblon.

Purpose-built for the outdoors, this space age range is all about the curves, something designer Marie Leblon has specialised in for the last 20 years. The table and seat (which is pictured over the page) are made of rigid polyurethane and available in colours including black, white and a 70s-friendly orange.

The table sells for £685, while the seats go for an additional £167 each.

Find out more at the Made in Design website

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Another piece from Pinch Design to lust after: the Pendel sofa. It’s a neat little two seater, designed to fit into a compact space and its curves recall the designs of someone like Finn Juhl. However, it’s been freshened up for the twenty-first century by the beautiful wildflower print upholstery.

The Pinch website suggests it could be used in a hallway or in a bay window. I hadn’t considered I needed a sofa in either of those spaces until now, but now I’ve seen it, I know I won’t feel satisfied until I do! I had better start counting my pennies however, as the sofa costs £2295.

A modern design, but there's a definite 60s space age look to this Glove armchair, the work of Content by Conran.

It's very much the 'Bond Villain' armchair, with a white moulded fibreglass shell, soft leather upholstered seating and a spun steel base with swivel and tilt mechanism.

If you fancy it, you're in luck as the Glove armchair is currently in the Conran sale. Saying that, it's still fairly high priced at £1,756.

Find out more at the Conran Shop website

Okay, so the LCD style message show on the card above isn't too appropriate to this time of year but as it is a 'write your own message' greeting card you can make it say whatever you want it to say. It is bought as a blank card with an embossed LCD grid for you to write over and produce your own eighties looking message. A copy of the alphabet is even supplied with the card so you know exactly what line should go where. 

The card is created by the Yellow Owl workshop who sell the cards individually for $4.50 or as a set of five for $18. As they are an American company you may think twice about whether the shipping fees make it worthwhile ($9.50 for a single card) but it remains a great idea. Available to buy in shops in US is wrapping paper printed with the same grid which you can see beneath the card in the image. 

Though it's a contemporary number, Tobias Grau’s Project X light has a design that looks so space age
it could almost be a UFO! I imagine it will also look pretty interesting when switched on: the bottom of this height adjustable light is made from opal glass while the top is made from transparent glass that can be left clear or coloured red or blue. To top off the sleek look, the main body is made from polished aluminium. 

The light costs 593 euros from the Tobias Grau website. 

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