Category: Design and Interiors

More than a feature wall, the Lizzie Allen Telephone Box wallpaper is a huge piece of art, should you have a wall big enough to cope with it.

It’s actually a life-sized print of a traditional red telephone box, hand screen-printed on super-wide paper, each one bespoke, so in effect, also unique. And you’ll certainly be unique in your street with one of these on the wall – and if you position your phone nearby, you can lay claim to having your very own phone box.

For reference, the wallpaper (which is also offered in a gold variation) is 135cm wide and 300cm tall (that around 10ft) – so make sure you have the wall space before ordering. And at £330, it might be as well to get a professional in to hang it.

Find out more at the TfL website

He might be known mainly for furniture designs like the Shell Chair and the Ox Chair, but he’s also turned his hand to lighting too – including the Hans Wegner Pendant light.

Dating back to 1962 (but with definite earlier modernist influences), this simplistic light is actually quite clever technically – move the aluminium shade up the cord for brighter light around the room, run it down for more focused light (round a table for example).

Look out for it in white, black or a metallic finish, priced around £460.

Find out more at the SCP website

Ideal for fans of Batman or lovers of pop art, the Pillow Fight! giant floor cushion is also perfect for a lazy weekend.

If you hadn’t guessed, the design is based on the old Batman TV show of the 1960s, the words on the suede-finished cushion being the sound effects of the Batman punch-ups.

Not that you’d be advised to hit anyone with this – at 100cm x 100cm, it’s more suited for sitting on in front of the TV. Available online, you can pick one up for £80.

Find out more at the Octopus website

It might look like a space age design, but the Santa & Cole Cadaques armchair actually dates from around 10 years earlier.

1959 was the year of its introduction, the work of Federico Correa, Alfonzo Mila and Miguel Mila, the Cadaques (and matching sofa) was designed for lounging – specifically in the seaside town of Cadaques (hence the name).

It’s sat on walnut-coloured beech legs, with simple (and easy to maintain) hand-swen upholstery keeping you supported. Looks good and feels good – what more could you want? Well, maybe a drop in the price – currently retailing for £2,350.

Find out more at the Nest website

I’ve just realised that we have never featured the Vico Magistretti Eclisse 1960s table lamp on the site – despite one being sat on my bedside table for many years.

Designed by Vico Magistretti for Artemide back in 1967, the lamp offers up an understated charm and variable amounts of light, courtesy of that sliding shade, exposing as much brightness as you require.

The casing is powder-coated metal, with a choice of white, orange and silver for the finish. Yours for £76.

Find out more at the SCP website

Good old-fashioned floodlight pylons are rapidly becoming a thing of the past at many football grounds, but you can keep the spirit alive in your own home with the Floodlamp.

Yes, shaped like the old pylon-style lights (the ones you could climb up as a kid), this particular version is made of aluminium, with six separate bulbs able to brighten up the darkest of spaces. And unlike the real thing, this version has a swivel head so you can direct the light.

Perfect for an office desk, even better for a high class Subbuteo set-up, it retails for £69.95.

Find out more at the Firebox website