Category: Design and Interiors

Ok, here’s the background. Verner Panton designed the New Wave lighting range back in 1984 for Danish design house Holmegaard. But Holmegaard and indeed the 1980s wasn’t ready for it, so the designs were left to gather dust in the Holmegaard basement. Until now that is.

Because it’s finally been issued by the company, looking every bit the contemporary lighting range – showing just how ahead of his time Panton was. Choose from a table lamp, floor lamp, wall lamp or pendant, all with an undulating surface that’s as much sculpture as lighting.

Prices start at £247.

Find out more at the Panik Design website

We mentioned Ettore Sottsass earlier this week when covering the classic Olivetti Valentine typewriter. He died in 2007, aged 90, but before his death he designed the Emeco Nine-0 seating range.

The design for all the chairs is an update of the classic (and modernist-inspired) Emeco 1006 Navy chair, used in submarines from 1944. The new versions come with a hand-brushed or hand-polished aluminium frame with a soft polyurethane seat and in some cases, a back too. The range includes stacking chairs, armchairs, office chairs and bar stools.

The chairs were on display at the Milan furniture show in April, but are just drifting into stores now. The US retailer Design Public currently stocks them, with prices starting at the equivalent of £190.

Find out more at the Design Public website

We haven’t featured anything by George Nelson for a while – reason enough to highlight this George Nelson Turbine clock, originally available back in 1957 and now back in production via Vitra.

The name is obviously no coincidence, with that ‘turbine’ look a real eye-catcher in brass. There’s also an aluminium centre and some distinctly individual hands, with the clock powered by high-grade quartz workings.

Powered by a single battery, it retails for £289.

FInd out more at the Utility Design website