No laughing at the back, the Lesbo table lamp by Angelo Mangiarotti is a very serious and very cool piece of 1960s design.
Designed for (and reissued by) Artemide back in 1967, it has a body and diffuser made from blown smoked Murano glass, with a base in polished metal, combining to produce a lamp that positively glows.
Your for £593 – and that doesn't include the required incandescent opal bulb.
Best seen from the side, the Poul Kjaerholm PK20 is a super-slim and super-stylish easy chair.
Reissued by Fritz Hansen, the PK20 is another example of that stylish simplicity, with a frame of satin-brushed stainless steel and a seat of either wicker, classic leather or natural leather, all finished off with a cushion to support your head.
Unfortunately, this 1968 design doesn't come with a price as stripped down as the seat – prices start at just over £4,000.
We’ve featured Ercol in the past, but if you want to get up close and personal with the mid-century designs, you can at the Liberty store in London from this Saturday.
Ercol will be on the fourth floor of the re-designed Liberty, with all of the Originals (dating back to the 1950s) on display and for sale in both the black and wood finish.
While all that is worthy of your attention, what we didn’t know is that you can now get the Originals with quirky upholstered finishes, like the one above, We don’t know for sure, but we suspect that’s a Marimekko fabric, looking like a marriage made in heaven. We don’t have details of the price of these right now, you’ll probably need to contact the store.
We featured these back in October 2008, but at the time, the Alexander Girard 1970s PlyPrint artwork was only available to our US readers. Well, now you can pick them up in the UK.
As the name suggests, these are plywood panels, each featuring designs by Alexander Girard that were originally silk screen prints dating back to 1971. The new versions are hand screen-printed onto sustainably-harvested maple plywood panels using water based inks, all with the Girard signature.
Sold with mounting kit, you can pre-order the panels now (for March delivery) via SCP, sized at 36 x 36cm and retailing for £76. A set of smaller panels featuring the 'Love' image is also available for £34.99. See over for another image.
Got a plain wall in the house? Want to liven it up? You should check out the Vinyl Design website, which has some rather cool retro gaming wall decals.
Set up by two Italian architects now living in Australia, Vinyl Design offers a range of decals, including animals, lettering and nature – but our eyes fell on the retro range. Within there, you'll find a Rubiks Cube, Space Invaders and our two favourites, Tetris (above) and Pac-Man (pictured over the page).
Check out all the designs on the website, all sold in packs and with instructions, with prices starting at 28 AU$.
The French House does a nice line in quirky bird houses, but our favourite has got to be the Bauhaus bird house.
Yes, this is a modernist home for your feathered friends, offering something more functional and minimalist in a 1930s-style.
And if the birds don't like it, you'll still have one of the coolest birdhouses on the block to show off Not badly priced either, yours for £34.95.
