Category: Design and Interiors

First design in 1971 for Georges Pompidou’s private apartment in the Élysée Palace, the Ligne Roset Pumpkin armchair range has now gone into mass production for the very first time.

It’s pure 70s space age, built around a fairly sold foam structure, with upholstery in a choice of bright period colours and a range that includes two settees, two armchairs and a footstool.

Obviously we’re not talking budget here, with an armchair priced around the £900 mark. Check instore for a full list of prices for the other items.

Find out more at the Ligne Roset website

Remember the days when TV actually went off? Henriette Hyldgaard does – and she’s designed the TV cushion as a fitting epitaph.

Yes, based on the screen you might have seen should you have been burning the midnight oil in the 1980s (as opposed to the clown and girl from the 70s), the cushion is produced by Neon Living, made of 100 per cent cotton and has a super-soft duck-down inner.

Sized at 40 x 60cm, it’s yours for £33.

Find out more at the Funktion Alley website

Running until the 27th September at the Rocket Gallery on Shoreditch High Street, is an exhibition of the work by Danish designer Poul Kjaerholm.

Like many Danish designers, Kjaerholm’s work is typified by clean lines and understated elegance, but where he differed from many of his contemporaries is in his preference for steel frames over traditional wood. The exhibition comprises of a dozen separate pieces, including furniture, original prints and original catalogues from the 1950s and 1960s. The gallery also has a number of books on the work of Kjaerholm.

Visit the Rocket Gallery website for further information and opening times.

If you liked the look of the recently-featured Armchair 400, but want something a little bigger, then maybe the Sofa 544 is for you.

Very much cut from the same cloth as the 400, the 544 was also produced back in 1934 and features those distinctive Alvar Aalto curves for the frame (made from natural birch), with a range of upholstery available (including the ‘zebra’) to choose from for seat and back, all filled with a comfortable/hard-wearing foam.

Not cheap, with prices starting at £4,000.

Find out more at the Skandium website