Category: Design and Interiors

High-end wallpaper retailer Cole & Son has launched the Vintage Glamour Collection, re-creating 16 authentic designs from  the 1920s to the 1950s, the kind of thing once found in mid 20th century ocean cruise liners, hedonistic hotels and haute couture.

HIghlights include Carlyle (an Art Deco design that simulates an embossed leather book binding), Belgravia (coiled ribbon design on a leather grain background), Crocodile (a 1930s Cole original of simulated ‘buffed crocodile skin’), Fairmount (50s archive design reviving an 18th century look), Chevron (Art Deco chevrons), Dolly (3D-style fan design from the 50s), Palm Court (1920s archive design featuring olive leaves and stylised flowers) and Molino (Art Deco half circles).

Expect them being available to order in the coming weeks, prices to be confirmed.

Find out more at the Cole & Son website

A great design and great upholstery on this Conran Matador chair.

It’s a classic wingback chair – a simplified take on the gentlemen’s club chairs, ideal for relaxing in and having a nap. And if the design isn’t enough, check out that cloth – there isn’t enough detail about it on the site, but it screams mid-century Scandinavian.

Available now, you can order the chair from £795. The stool is extra, priced from £285.

Find out more at the Red Door Sofa website

That curved wood and wire support might say mid-century, but the Swedese Flower coffee tables are actually a modern design.

The work of Christine Schwarer, these tables are offered in large or standard sizes, both with the choice of red, white or black laminate top, bordered in lacquered birch and with a base of chromed steel.

The standard table sells for £349, with the larger table at £529.

Find out more at the Dansk Online website

It might be a design classic, but the Egg Chair is pretty much everywhere these days. What you want is some exclusivity – and you’ll certainly get that with the limited edition 50th anniversary Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair from Fritz Hansen.

Designed in 1958 for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen Denmark and previously available in an endless range of colours and finishes, this limited edition anniversary model introduces  chocolate brown suede on the back and dark chocolate brown leather on the front, as well as a bronze base that will apparently darken with age.

Just 999 of these are being made, each engraved under the seat cushion with a unique number and a few words about the history and origin of the Egg chair design. it also comes with a limited edition 50th anniversary book about the seat. Expect to see them in ‘selected stores’ from February 1st 2008 – no price given as yet.

Find out more at the Fritz Hansen website

We feature lots of bold 70s-style wallcoverings on Retro To Go, but less from earlier eras. We’ll remedy that with these 50s-style wallpapers from Focus DIY.

I say 50s, but they could actually fit in with interiors inspired from earlier eras. Three designs in the range, the two on the first image are the Milie Spot (white dots on light blue background) and  the Millie Floral (small flowers on blue background). The second image is the Millie Large Floral, which increases the foliage size if you fancy a flower-covered feature wall.

All are available from Focus DIY online or instore from March, with prices starting at £15.99 per roll.

Find out more at the Focus DIY website