It might look like it has been dragged kicking and screaming from the late 60s or early 70s, but the Clea table lamp is actually a fairly modern design.
It was actually introduced in 2006, the work of Christophe Mathieu and stands around 30cm in height, projecting light downwards from that eye-catching injected polycarbonate frame.
Take your pick from red, anthracite black, white and chrome for the finishes, priced from a very affordable £59.
A cool piece of space age design has been reissued for the modern era – the Rodolfo Bonetto Melaina easy chair.
Originally designed by Rodolfo Bonetto for Driade in 1970, it's a chair that literally screams the era – a fairly small, all-in-one fibreglass armchair in an amaranth colour that's perfect for pretending you're in Space 1999 or doing something more mundane like watching TV or reading a book. Just don't take it outside – this is one fibreglass chair that doesn't like the elements.
Available once more, the Melaina is yours for £832.
Fancy living out your life in an old school console game? The Supermario headboard by Myrica Bergquist could be the first step to your dream.
Yes, just like a piece of an 8-bit game, the laser-cut acrylic headboard slots behind your bed to offer up a practical piece of eye-catching design in a variety of colours, including the red pictured above. Coupled with some Nintendo wall graphics and it's big kid heaven.
Available for both single and double beds, the Supermario headboard is exclusive to Pid, retailing at 241 Euros for the single and 455 Euros for the double.
Find out more at the Pid website
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The last of the three Sergio Rodrigues reissues we've featured this week is the oldest and arguably the most stylish of the bunch, the ClassiCon Oscar armchair.
Another mid-century gem from Brazil (and named after iconic architect Oscar Niemeyer), the Oscar is a more upright seat with plenty of rounded contours forged by hand from solid eucalyptus, with a seat and backrest in cane or with leather upholstery.
Like the previous reissues, this certainly isn't cheap, starting at £1,690.
Michel Arnoult's Pelicano rocking chair has been around for a few years but looks a lot older than it actually is. It was actually designed in 2003 but draws heavily on the Arnoult's design background. Although he was French, he spent much his time in Brazil and believed strongly in the democratisation of design. In the 1950s, he was one of the first in Brazil to produce Ready-To-Assemble furniture (leaving millions of flatpacks to follow in his wake).
If you want to instill an appreciation of classic design into your children from an early age, you need to kit out their rooms with items from the Knoll Kids collection. Although it just might set you back the best part of your savings to do it.
Knoll Kids are essentially sized-down versions of classic mid-century design from the Knoll catalogue, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and stool, Eero Saarinen's Womb chair, Harry Bertoia's Diamond chair and our favourite, Kazuhide Takahama's 1960s Suzanne lounge seating (as seen above).
The size might have shrunk, but the quality and attention to detail are exactly as you would find in the 'grown up' versions, which means the prices aren't a million miles apart either. We haven't found a UK stockist of these as yet, but they are on general sale in the US, so that gives us a rough guide on prices. The Suzanne seating starts at $1,652, the Diamond at $530, the Womb chair at a staggering $2,380 and the Barcelona is yours from – wait for it – $3,674.
