Category: Design and Interiors

If you’re trying to create a modernist look for your home, the Gianfranco Frattini Acheo wall light could be a stylish addition.

It’s not from the original era, the Acheo actually dates back to 1989, but it does feature a look that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a stylish 1930s apartment. The wall support is constructed from chromed metal, while the diffuser is made of borosilicate glass, holding a 300w halogen bulb for some substantial brightness.

Reissued by Artemide and available online, it costs around £149.

Find out more at the Panik Design website

Not just one piece of useful design, the Magis Pebbles Stool is actually two.

A modern design (from Marcel Wanders) that’s very much influenced by the 70s in both look and colour, the Pebbles stool is a storage box, perfect for hiding away all your junk when someone calls round. But if you need an emergency seat, you can use it for that too. In fact, you can opt to use as a small coffee table too if you like – which makes three uses.

And with wheels on the rear, you can push the Pebbles around the house, wherever it’s needed. Prices start at £68.

Find out more at the Nest website

We featured one lounge chair from Geoffrey Harcourt recently and here’s another – the Geoffrey Harcourt F978 lounge chair.

For me, it’s a stunner. This 1968 seat screams the decade in every detail – from the shape, to the polished tulip-style base and the red and white colour scheme. In terms of specifics, the chair consists of a white polyurethane shell mixed with red Super Bultex foam and dacrom seating, with that base made of aluminium.

If you have £1,776 in the bank, you can buy one now.

Find out more at the Nest website

Not to be confused with the Eero Aarnio version, the Pierre Paulin Mushroom Pouf is actually an earlier take on the fungus shape.

It’s actually companion piece to the Mushroom Chair, designed in 1960 as a smaller, cheaper and slightly more quirky mushroom-shaped seat and now back in production via Artifort. The whole structure is cushioned, with a wide choice of boldly-coloured fabrics to choose from to finish things off.

It stands around 380m in height, with a diameter of 460mm, selling for £383.

Find out more a the Nest website

Stamp collecting might just become cool with the introduction of the Royal Mail’s British Design Classics postage stamps.

Launching on 13th January 2009, the stamps feature 10 icons of British design from the 1930s to the 1960s, including the likes of the Mini, the mini skirt, the Penguin paperback, Concorde, the red phone box and the London Underground map, all stylishly printed on a stamp with designer’s name underneath.

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