John Lewis has some great retro-styled lighting instore right now, not least a healthy range from one of our favourite makers, Original BTC – including the Ginger table lamp.
A new design but a distinctly vintage look that would look great in an art deco-themed home. For your money you get a lamp with plenty of stylish curves, along with an aluminium head and chromed steel finish, perfect for a bedside, reading of office lamp.
Available online, it retails for £265.
We’ve mentioned exhibitions at the Rocket Gallery in the past, and now they have decided to expand their activities in mid-century design with a new space devoted pieces from this period.
The space showcases mid-century furniture by American, Danish and British designers including Jens Risom, Poul Kjaerholm, Hans Wegner, Gordon Russell and Herbert Krenchel. All pieces are for sale or for hire. Viewing of the furniture is by appointment or you can ask for a tour of it when if you are visiting another of their exhibitions.
Rocket Gallery is located in the Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JJ. Visit their website at www.rocketgallery.com.
Finn Juhl originally designed his Turning Tray in 1956 and it has been relaunched by Lassen tableware. Using several distinctive elements of Juhl's style, the tray remains elegant today. Its curved teak frame and laminate surface was adapted into a table design in the 1960s.
The tray comes in three sizes as shown above and is still handmade in Denmark. The laminate is available in various evocative sounding colour options for the laminate: kimono red, angel blue, alaska white or husky green, all with black desert.
Another great retro-themed gem for the office – this Lego-style Building Block calculator.
It's Lego-style rather than being official Lego merchandise, but the influence is obvious – with the buttons shaped like Lego dimples, while the base is the brick. Not just novelty either – this plastic calculator is as capable as any other basic calculator of working out your everyday expenses.
US-only as far as we can see, with pre-orders now being taken for August, priced at $27(around £16.50).
If you love vintage video games, chances are that you'll also love Stap Man.
Designed by Ankul Assavaviboonpan for Propaganda, this office accessory is obviously influenced by Pac-Man, with the stapler able to gobble up your paper, sticking in the staples as it goes.
Available in black or white, you can pick one up for £16.
The Flow Collection has been around since 2006, but we have only just encountered the Kay + Stemmer Flow office desk, which is available exclusively from Heals.
It's a desk with a look that's very much rooted in the mid-century era, even if the actual design is modern, offering those mid-century style curves, a handcrafted walnut finish, along with a hide-lined drawer with partitions.
It's the kind of desk you always promised yourself – and you get it from Heals for £1,795.
