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.
A quirky way to keep your photos safe – this hand-bound Scrabble Board photo album.
Designed by Ryan McAbery, the cover for this hand-bound book has been made from a reclaimed Scrabble board, ‘photos’ is spelled out in authentic tiles and Stonehenge fine art paper has been used for this book.
48 pages in total, you can pick up the album for $15 (around £7.50).
Find out more at the MixtGoods website
The word ‘bar’ usually conjures up images of boat-shaped nightmares made of plastic and fake leather. The Leonhard Pfeifer walnut Mini Bar is a far more stylish affair.
This retro-styled walnut bar with oak legs can be used as a small table if you’re not offering the drinks. But open it up and you it reveals your collection of bottles, as well as having a shelf for extra storage.
Available in the walnut/oak here or in all oak (if you want something lighter), it’s available from the Hidden Art Shop for £285.
Find out more from the Hidden Art Shop website
Off to Ikea for a new desk? Why not save up for a few weeks longer and buy something with a bit more character, like the Eames Desk Unit.
One of our five favourite desks (a list still headed by the stunning George Nelson Home Desk), this one dates back to 1949 and is composed of plywood with a maple veneer and brushed metal, not to mention those eye-catching coloured screens.
The height is adjustable and it’s strong enough to hold your PC. Definitely a stylish addition to your home office, retailing for £748.
As a child, a good way of passing the time of day in the long holidays was making badges out of old packaging and crisp packets, something designer Anwen Williams is still doing with these vintage sweet wrapper badges.
There’s a good choice to choose from, including the Black Jack, Fruit Salad and Refresher pictured here, all 3.5cm in diameter and all handmade.
And you can pick them up for £2.50 each.
Find out more at the Junkie Lovers website
If you can’t fit all your bits and pieces into the classic Boby trolley, you might want to invest in the Jo Colombo Spinny trolley.
It carries the Jo Colombo name, but is actually a modern-day design by the Jo Colombo Studio for B-line, very much in the style of the great man’s 60s plastic classics. The unit itself has 12 drawers, with three different drawer sizes, all made from injection-moulded ABS plastic in a choice of colours and all able to swivel 180 degrees.
And when your drawers are full, they just slot back in and wheel away. Available to order online, the Spinny retails for £525.
