Category: Design and Interiors

A while back we featured the Kay Bojesen monkey, if you liked that and you want add to your animal collection, how about buying his elephant?

The world famous Elephant was designed in 1951 by Kay Bojesen, is made in Denmark from Oak, and is 6.3" high. As it is a piece of modern Danish design you can expect superior craftmanship. With his good-natured look and robust physical presence, the elephant would be a great desk companion, or a traditional gift for a little one, that could be handed down the generations.

If you feel like adding this friendly elephant to your house, you can buy him for £126.95.

Find out more on the Espacio website.

This chair might look vintage, but that’s intentionally so, because the De La Warr Pavilion chair has been created as a modernist tribute to a 1930s building.

The chair has been designed by BarberOsgerby and manufactured by Established and Sons specifically for the restored 1930s De La Warr pavilion in Bexhill, East Sussex, where they’re currently in use in the restaurant.

They’re made of aluminium, with hooped back and legs creating that 30s feel and are available commercially in a choice of black, green or mirror-polished finish. Not cheap though – prices start at £388, but can rise to over £700, depending on your choice of finish.

Find out more at the Established and Sons website

There’s a definite touch of the art deco about the Tid ceramic clock, but this Swedish clock by Marianne Abelsson for Design House Stockholm is very much a modern design.

It’s a circular clock (12cm diameter) that sits on top of a plinth (or table rack as it’s described), with a choice of numbers of markers for the time. There’s also a colour option too – black and white or white and brown.

Available now for around £30.

Find out more at the Scandinavian Design Center website

If you missed the Midcentury Modern show in London in October, here’s the good news – it’s returning in March.

65 leading dealers will be present in a light and bright 60s concrete and glass building. Head downstairs to dealers selling Aalto, Panton, Eames and Nelson and upstairs for Britain’s best contemporaries before checking out the new room of specialist collectables in Dulwich College’s arched cloister.

If you’re serious about retro design, it’s the place to be,

Date: Sunday 4th March. 2007

Location: Christison Hall, Dulwich College, Dulwich Common, London SE19.

Entry for trade and serious collectors 9am (£7), general public 10am – 4pm (£5). Under 14s free.

Find out more at the Our Show Home website