Poker is enjoy newfound levels of popularity these days and if you’ve caught the card-playing bug, you may want a dedicated poker table for your home. This one was designed by influential Italian designer Joe Colombo so you won’t be sacrificing any style.
As well as the fetching regulation green baize, the table features corner mounted swing-away ashtrays.
Espacio are selling the Joe Colombo Poker Table. Be warned it costs over £2,000 so it will take a few winning hands to pay for it.
Is there any way of improving on the classic clothes hanger? Well, yes, you can turn it into the Clothes Hanger lamp.
Designed by Hector Serrano, this is a usable hanger – in fact, hanging clothes on it brings the hanger to life. Pop on a short and watch it glow, thanks to the fluorescent light embedded into the hanger. And I presume different coloured garments will produce different coloured lights.
Available online, you can pick one up for $249 (around £125).
Another budget idea for connoisseurs of classic furniture design – Eames Chair Coasters.
They come as a set of four, comprising the 1948 LaChaise, the 1951 Wire Side Chair, the 1956 Lounge Chair and Ottoman, and the 1946 Molded Plywood Chair with Metal Legs. Each chair pictured is black and the coasters are made from clear acrylic which gives them a stylish minimalist appearance.
They cost $18 per set (approximately £9) and are available to buy online from the Museum of Modern Art’s store.
It’s rare to see a top hat or a bowler hat on the streets today, but you can offer them a home in your home with these Jeeves and Wooster pendant lights.
Designed by Jake Phipps, these are seriously quirky lights, but are designed for long-term use, with a black wool felt exterior and VO fire-rated polycarbonate diffuser. There’s also fire-rated brass electrical fittings and a cord with a standard ceiling fitting.
You can buy each individually from the Hidden Art Shop, although it is slightly cheaper to buy the two designs as a pair – £415 if you opt for both.
The thinking behind the Eero Aarnio Screw Table was that screws are used in every building but mostly hidden away, so he decided to design a product to honour them as visible objects!
Aarnio’s original Screw Table is still in production by Adelta and can be bought online from Design Shop UK. Prices start at approximately £1,400 and go up to approximately £1650 depending on the size and finish of the table.
However, if this is out of your price range but you still want this quirky tribute to industrial design in your home, then Retro Republic are selling their own version inspired by the original at the much more affordable price of £65.
Blinds as art? That seems to be the case with these Eclectic roller blinds.
Obviously a functional item for keeping out the light, these roller blinds also feature a pop art-style design of circles and target in a choice of colour scheme – red, white or beige. Or you can mix and match the colours like the picture above.
Price varies depending on your size of window, although you can get a price on the website by entering your measurements.
