Its Valentines Day next week so here is a stylish suggestion for a gift for your loved one that will last longer than a bunch of flower or box of chocolates – the Panton Heart Cone Chair.
Designed in 1959, it is a slight variation on the better known Cone Chair. It is available from Nest in a choice of seven colours, but for a Valentine gift, it really has to be the red.
Sadly it does cost more than the average romantic gesture. With 10% off at Nest at the moment, it still costs around £1,650.
Typhoon has re-introduced its Capsule kitchen collection in a new range of colours, notably this retro olive green shade.
The designs too have a retro vibe, covering everything from the scales and storage canisters pictured above, but also including a clock, mug tree, towel holder, oil drizzler, colander and waste bins.
if you don’t like the green, there are plenty of other new colours to choose from, with items in the range priced from just £6.
Fancy appearing on TV? It’s easy enough with this retro TV photo frame.
Just slip in a photo (well two actually, this is double-sided) and you get to appear on the cartoon-like retro screen. And with two images in place, you can just turn round the TV when you get bored of one / fall out with a friend / split up.
Available in three colours, you can pick one up for £4.99.
Find out more at the Drinkstuff website
Dependable Marks and Spencer might not be a hotbed of retro design but from time to time it does come up with something worth a mention, such as this Jacquard Graphic Abstract Duvet Cover.
The online production description refers to it as contemporary, but I would beg to differ as its pattern is a very retro op-art design in a subtle blue-grey colour. It is available in a range of sizes, costing from £29.50 for the single duvet cover and going up to £59 for the super king size.
Visit Marks and Spencer’s website to buy online.
Rocking chairs are often pigeon-holed as being for either the elderly or for children, perhaps appealing to those age groups because they are comfortable or fun. But there is no reason why the rest of us shouldn’t enjoy a rocking chair too, especially when we can add ‘stylish’ to its list of attributes as is the case with Verner Panton’s Relaxer Rocking Chair.
Originally designed in 1974, they were only available in limited numbers back then so became something of a collectors’ item. But seeing its potential popularity, Matzform re-released the Relaxer in 2004. Its available to buy from several retailers, including DDR, where prices start at 1090 Euros (approximately £820) for plain fabric upholstery with prices rising for the striped option pictured here or leather coverings.
Thanks to Martin Kuijpers for the tip off about this chair.
Much like the word vintage, iconic is a word that is over-used, but the Orange Slice Chair by Pierre Paulin is surely one piece of furniture worthy of that honour.
Designed in 1960, it is one of Paulin’s series of chairs for Artifort that combine an inner structure of steel tubing with foam and fabric to create a structural piece. It is still being manufactured today by Artifort and it can be bought online from several place, including from Modern Classics Direct where they cost £399.
They are available in a wide selection of colours, although ironically it seems, not orange!
Visit Modern Classic Direct to view their selection.
