Category: Design and Interiors

We do like our weird and wonderful designs, but this Phone Box chair is probably taking things a step too far.

Designed to look like an old-style British phone box, the Phone chair (to use its listed name) is the work of ‘sculptural artist’ Finn Stone and is custom-built from fibre glass. There’s no mention of any padding for your behind and back.

A price is also missing, with the website stating that price is on application. Which probably means that it isn’t cheap.

Find out more at the Just Cool Chairs website

Go Modern is packed with iconic designs from the likes of Eames, Jacobsen, Saarinen, Le Corbusier, Breuer and Castiglioni – but considerably cheaper than you might imagine, due to being European interpretations of the classics, as opposed to officially licensed UK pieces. And typical is this Florence Knoll three-seat sofa.

Designed in 1954 as part of her Lounge Collection, it has the styling of a 60s piece, but still looks every bit the contemporary sofa today. This version is offered in a choice of Italian leather, including full aniline – the highest quality available.

But the best part is the price – £849 for a three-seater, which is more high street than high-end design.

Find out more at the Go Modern website

What do you get if you cross a phone with a light? Something like this Bakelite Telephone Lamp.

Designed by Jericho Hands, this is a restored vintage Bakelite telephone, but with a twist – the mouth and ear piece has been turned into a fully functioning light and is totally manoeuverable thanks to a flexible arm.

It’s as much a piece of home design as it is functioning light, as well as being a limited edition, individually numbered and stamped with the artist’s name. You can pick one up for £360.

Find out more at the Greenhaus website

Ever have the need to use Morse Code whilst drying the dishes? Thought not – but just in case that situation ever arises, you could pick up the International Morse Code tea towel.

The towel features the International Morse Code design from an original 1922 Chart, so all the original dots and dashes that kept sea folk safe all those years ago on 100 per cent cotton cloth and supplied with a natural grey cardboard gift tube (ideal for the sailor in your family that’s impossible to buy for).

You can pick one up from Ochigo, priced at £8.

Find out more at the Ochigo website

There’s definitely something of the Bond villain about this Cole armchair, designed by Alex Dreyer and available from Habitat.

The egg-shaped and hand-upholstered chair is designed to be ‘as comfortable as it looks’, consisting of a moulded polyurethane foam frame with a steel base and a chcie of four leathers – brown, bronze, white and black. And each is available with a matching footstool for those lazy days.

The chairs retail for £1,199.

Find out more at the Habitat website