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Nintendo Wall Graphics – turn your house into a Mario game

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Ever wanted to be a character in a video game? Well, if you pick up these Nintendo Wall Graphics, you can be just that.

Take your pick from Donkey Kong or two variations of Super Mario Brothers in all of their 8-bit glory and all represented by vinyl restickable wall-stickers, which allow you to re-create your favourite levels in life-sized detail. And when you’re bored, peel them off and start again.

Available online, each pack costs $74.99, which is around £38.

Find out more at the ThinkGeek website

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Lee J. Rowland Mint Stool – Polo-shaped seating

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Few designs are as distinctive as the humble Polo mint – it’s been around since 1948. Which makes this Mint stool something of an instant design classic.

Yes, based on the Polo, it was actually developed originally by Lee J. Rowland for the Mint night club in Leeds. It has a white fibre glass top and stainless steel legs, with the seat standing 430mm high, with a 340mm diameter.

If you want one in your home, get in touch with the designer – he’ll sell you one for £245.

Find out more at the Lee J. Rowland website

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Kursi 1950s-style sideboard

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Not the cheapest sideboard you’ll ever see, but the Kursi sideboard has the looks, as well as being eco-friendly.

At first glance, it might look like the typical 1950s sideboard, but it’s actually a modern take on a vintage design, offering storage options more in keeping with today’s lifestyle as well as having its eco-credentials boosted by an FSC birch plywood body and FSC sapele legs.

Each sideboard is made to order, retailing for £3,150.

Find out more at the One Eco Home website

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Starck’s Surreal “L’Oreille Qui Voit” Mirrors

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Phillippe Starck designed “L’Oreille Qui Voit” Mirrors for a hotel in Brazil and they are now being manufactured for you to purchase by xO. These designs are not strictly speaking retro, but the fluid distorted shape has clearly been influenced by surrealism, wihch is made especially clear in the surreal photos of the mirrors.

The name means “The Ear that Sees” because, aside from looking like Dali’s melting clocks, they are shaped like a human ear. The mirror comes in five sizes, ranging from 50cm high to 190cm high, and in a choice of silver leaf or black lacquer finish.

Of course, Starck designs come with a hefty price tag, with the smallest mirror in the range costing just under £1,000 and the largest just under £2,000. Made in Design will have the mirrors available in September.

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Jørn Utzon Concert P3 pendant light

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Jørn Utzon has made a considerable mark on both architecture and design for over 50 years, with the Jørn Utzon Concert P3 pendant light being a modern design that takes its influence from the past.

It’s not a million miles from his classic 1940s Tivoli lamp, but in this case uses four lacquered shades to create ambient lighting for even the largest of rooms.

If the P3 (with its 55cm diameter) is too large, there’s also a P1, which shrinks things down to 32cm. Prices are £195 for the P1 or £390 for the P3.

Find out more at the SCP website

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Kristian Vedel Child’s Chair – a 1950s classic reissued

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Bizarrely, we flagged this up as a vintage find some months back, but we have just discovered that the Kristian Vedel Child’s Chair has been reissued as part of the Architect Made series.

Produced around 1955 in Denmark, it’s a stylish and simple mid-century design that still works today. The frame is semi-circular bent plywood, with slats to support adjustable pieces of laminated plywood, held in place by tension. And when your child grows, just move up a slot.

Available online, you can pick up the chair for £295.

Find out more at the Panik Design website