Yes, the title says it all – this is a Table football coat hook.
Fix the unit to your wall and you can hang your coats on the footballer-shaped hooks. And that’s not all for the authenticity, the footballer are attached to a pole, just like in a traditional table football game – with a bit of excess at the end to hang up your umbrella.
Available from Purves & Purves, you can pick one up for £79.
Fancy yourself as a 70s rock god? You need the Flying V guitar pillow from Gama Go.
It serves three purposes. Firstly, as a great bit of home design. Secondly, as a pillow and finally (and most importantly) to do a spot of air guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.
Now the bad news. Gama Go aren’t keen on shipping this outside the US. Fine if you live there, not good for the rest of us. But if you do, you can pick one up for $34 (around £17).
Find out more at the Gama Go website
The look, the shape, the material – it all points to the late 60s/early 70s. But the Rive Droite chair by Cappellini is actually a modern-day design by Parisian designer Patrick Norguet.
The swivel chair is constructed of a satined stainless steel base supporting a metal frame with molded polyurethane foam padded upholstery. The cover is available in a choice of Cappellini fabrics as well as brightly coloured fabrics in cotton or velvet (as you can see to your right) by Emilio Pucci. And if you’ve got plenty of cash, there’s even a matching two-seater sofa.
But you’ll a significant amount for the chair alone – £2315.
Find out more at the Design Shop UK website
With iPods, MP3s and CD recording, it’s easy to forget the way many of us heard so much music for the first time – the humble cassette. And in tribute to that classic format is this Emma Ferguson Cassette Pillow.
It’s a handmade applique pillow, sized at 30cm x 39cm. But here’s the cool bit – in tribute to your favourite compilation tape, this Cassette Pillow can be customised with your very own title. Just send over the title with your order and it will be embroidered on when you receive it.
Available online, you can pick one up for around £25.
Find out more at the Emma Ferguson website
Once a means of propaganda, now a quirky and stylish addition to your home – that’s the Cultural Revolution clocks, which are available now from Rouge.
Shop owner Lei is originally from China and regularly makes trips over to the country for authentic items – and indeed collectables of tomorrow. Which is what these clocks are. All were made during the period 1966-76, are composed of tin and feature their own message – the above examples say “ Great Mentor, Great Leader, Long Life Chairman Mao” or "Long Life Chairman Mao".
Priced at just £25, you can pick them up via mail order or by calling into the shop in London.
Visit the Rouge Shop website
Looking for some stylish furniture with a heritage? Well, check out this mid-60s chaise used by James Bond in the movie You Only Live Twice. It’s going up for sale at The Annual King’s Road Antiques Fair at Chelsea Old Town Hall from 15th – 18th March 2007.
Even without the Bond connection, this is a very nice, modernist-inspired piece, made of chrome and leather, with a tan leather cushion. But there is the Bond connection – 007 lands on it when he falls through a stainless steel chute and into Takanas’ office.
If all that has you reaching for the cheque book, make sire you check your account first – it’s up for sale at £15,000.
