Poul Christiansen designed several lights for Le Klint in the 1970s and we’ve featured some of those before. Around the same time, Christian Ræder also created a pendant light for Le Klint, The Joker, which has recently been reissued.
Designed in 1970, The Joker won first prize at the Scandinavian Lighting fair. It is available in all white or in black on white, the latter of which shows its Batman influence most.
It is available from Designer Lights, priced £142.
Alongside the Dalu lamp reissue is a somewhat more obscure Vico Magistretti design for Artemide – the Mezzachimera table light.
It actually dates back to 1970, with a look that should fit perfectly into any space age home. In terms of specifics, the Mezzachimera has a white painted meta base with the structure/diffuser made of heat-curved white opal methacrylate, producing something that's part light, part home decoration.
Available now, it's yours for £296.
If you can't afford a Charles & Ray Eames stool, you can always go for something in the same line off the high street – like the Marks & Spencer Perfect wooden stool.
The originals were designed in 1960s by the mid-century maestros, part of a commission for the lobbies of the Rockefeller Center in New York, made of solid walnut with a turned wood look.
The Marks & Spencer version offers the same turned wood look, only this time in Sheesham wood, which has a chestnut colour. And for a much cheaper price too – £99 compared to around £700 for an original.
The Dalu Lamp was one of the first items we covered back in 2006 – we're big fans and have been ever since we found two originals in a dusty old box in a junk shop. But the lamp is now back in production, with a new transparent version of the Dalu Lamp now available.
We love Vico Magistretti's 60s classic for two reasons – firstly, it looks superb and screams the era, but secondly, it's an affordable design classic. For your money, you get that distinctive S-shaped polycarbonate body, with a small bulb housed in the top section. But the new versions are offered as transparent red and orange, adding a cool minimalist twist to a 60s gem.
Cheap too – yours for just over £50.
Cheap, cheerful and oozing retro cool, the John Lewis Bobi task lamp is a winner on all levels.
Loving the mix of chrome and brightly-painted metal, but also the usefulness of the Bobi – you can bend it to your needs and at just 37cm high, it's small enough not to fill up your desk.
Powered by a halogen lamp (included), it sells for £24.
Yes, you read it right – this is a seat from the 1940s, specifically the Carlo Mollino Ardea armchair.
Mollino came up with this design back in 1944, but to be honest it looks a good 20 years later – almost space age. A twist on the wing chair, the Ardea offers up a black painted wood frame, polyurethane foam seating and a removable cover in your choice of cloth. Not to mention some serious designer cool.
If you want one, expect to pay just over £2,000 for this Zanotta reissue.
