If you love vintage arcade games, you might just love the Asteroid Lamp from Innermost.
Designed by Koray Ozgen and shaped like a space rock, this angular plastic light has 24 facets, each with its own geometry – which means you can use it in 24 different ways, each one offering a unique shape.
It is sized at around 12 inches x 11.5 inches and sells for $176 (around £90).
Find out more at the Design Public website
It might not be the sexiest thing in the house, but if you want a vintage/period look, the radiators are one of those essential finishing touches. And if you want to go vintage in your house, a good place to look is Feature Radiators.
The company is offering the Etonian range – new radiators in the exact style of vintage. They are available in just about every size and width you could ask for and not only that, they will also provide them in any colour you require (to order) and with a 10-year guarantee.
Not too expensive either – prices start at £57.
Wharfside has been selling furniture since the 1960s, much of it made by skilled craftsmen in Scandinavia. Indeed, the Wharfside Assisi 1350 certainly has the looks of a 60s Scandinavian piece.
I’m talking about that rather stylish curved wood exterior, with sliding ‘tambourine’ wood doors that allow for discreet storage of DVD players and other television equipment.
Take your pick from solid cherry, oak, beech or walnut, all with metallic base, selling from £2440.
Unless you are an artist, you may not have had much call for coloured pencils since you left school, but this set is definitely aimed more at adults than school children. Called “Yesterday’s News”, the set of 12 coloured pencils are made from recycled Chinese newspapers!
Each pencil is produced using tightly wrapped sheets of newspapers, so the print features censored journalism, classified ads and table tennis results. They are supplied in a tube also made from recycled newspaper.
They would make an interesting gift and only cost £2.35 from the Days Gone By Shop.
A while back we featured the reissued La Fonda armchair by Alexander Girard. If you liked that, chances are that you’ll also like the newly-reissued La Fonda coffee table.
The tables were commissioned for the La Fonda del Sol restaurant at New York’s Rockefeller Center and developed in the Eames office in 1961. That resulted in the striking chrome die-cast aluminium legs and Carrara marble top, standing at a height of 65cm and with a diameter of 45cm.
And it is available again, courtesy of Vitra. Price is around £1,254.
We featured Heirloom furniture some time back, but at the time it wasn’t available. It is now.
If you missed out original article, Heirloom is mid-century style furniture for children, built to last through generations of your family. We have highlighted the Ellinor rocking chair before, but also in the collection and available to order is this stylish Nora table.
Unmistakably Scandinavian and inspired by furniture from the 50s and 60s, it is handmade, at ‘child height’ and with a choice of walnut, oak or birch finishes – all with a large surface area and rack underneath. The table retails for £369.40, with the rocking chair now confirmed at £742.
Find out more at the Scandinavian Design Center website
