Not an obvious Verner Panton light, but that’s because the Verner Panton Moon ceiling light is one of his earlier creations.
It actually dates from 1960, consisting of 10 ring-shaped aluminium blades positioned so they can move. Which created a lighting effect as well as light as the some beams pass through while others reflect again the blades.
Available online, this space-inspired fitting retails for £524.
Find out more at the Utility Design website
Not the most exciting piece of home furniture you’ll ever buy, but the Tablo tray table does have an understated charm.
On top of that dark wood frame (available in small and large sizes) is a lacquered rubberwood tray in a choice of colour – depending on whether you want plain or bold. Ideal as a side table or serving table, ideal for plants and ideal for both indoors or outdoors (as it’s all wood).
Designed by Magnus Löfgren for Design House Stockholm, the tables sell from £124.50 – the one downside really.
Find out more at the MoletaMunro website
Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as far back as 1920 and still very much a contemporary piece of design is the Knoll MR armchair.
The chair is built around the frame – tubular polished chrome, with the same chrome providing the armrests. The seating cantilevers over that base, with each section quilted and seamed into individual sections.
The signature of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is stamped into the base of the chair, with each chair having an individual production number for identification and authenticity. Choose from black or white leather, both retailing for the hefty price tag of £2,925.
Admittedly much of its range is pretty bland, but if you dig deep, there are some cool items at Ikea (like the cushions we featured earlier today and larger items like the Knoll-like Karlstad sofa above). And if you go on Saturday 19th April, you get 21 per cent off everything in the store.
That discount (which celebrates the 21st anniversary) runs from 6am to Midnight, with a free breakfast from 6am to 8am and hot dogs for 21p all day. I suspect you’ll need to go early or late in the day to get anywhere near the car park!
Sadly, it is store-only – the discount doesn’t apply for online sales.
Hidden away on the Orla Kiely site is is a rather cool stationery range, including everything from A4 to A6 books, both soft covers and bound. But we prefer these rather smart Stem Print flip books.
You can buy individually or (cheaper) as a set, each containing 48 blank pages and as the name suggests, a flip top and pages.
It should make you the coolest character in the meeting room – and for £8.95 for the three shown here.
Find out more at the Orla Kiely website
A man described as the ‘grandfather of modern Danish furniture’ will be celebrated with a reissue of some of his classic designs – Finn Juhl 1940 – 1965.
The mid-century reissues are by Hamburg-based Wohnkultur 66 and include the two designs above – the 4600 sofa from 1946 (with a teak and walnut frame) and the 1948 4850 coffee table, which is also made from teak and walnut, with a choice of four colours for the top.
Initially, they will be exclusive to Wohnkultur 66 and certainly not cheap. No price for the sofa as yet, but the coffee table retails for 1,565 Euros.
