The Louis Poulseen Enigma 425 Pendant Light is another great space-age style piece and a very clever bit of design too.
Ultra fine wires hold the shade in place horizontally whilst creating the illusion of floating. The light source is concealed within a cone that is not visible but still allows enough glare-free light into the room.
The light costs £379 from Cloudberry Living.
You probably know that gift-wrapping your presents is terribly environmentally unsound, but somehow gifts aren’t as good without it. Thankfully Green Apple has a good selection of Recycled Gift Wrap.
This does not mean that it is paper from a previously received gift (although you can always go down that route yourself), but rather it is made from recycled paper. Moreover, the design options definitely favour retro styles. These include several retro-influenced designs by Lisa Jones and Sukie’s Alphabet design. The paper is of high quality and cost between £1.20 and £1.50 per sheet.
Visit the Green Apple website to see all of the options.
Yesterday we featured one half of the new Muji v Thonet range, the bentwood table and chairs. Today we're checking the other half, this time inspired by the company's modernist designs of the 1920s – and including the tubular steel desk by Konstantin Grcic.
Hip German designer Konstantin Grcic has been given the chance to update the company's iconic Bauhaus-like tubular steel designs, adding a slightly contemporary twist, but effectively (and thankfully) leaving the look very much in the 20s. Which means one of the coolest desk designs ever has had a designer overhaul and comes in with a high street price tag.
How much? Well, prices being quoted are around £250 for the desk, with the chair pictured expected to sell for around £215. Again, these are due from August and initially, only from the Muji flagship store on London's Tottenham Court Road.
Art deco design doesn't have to mean spending a small fortune at antique houses and specialist shops, you can get something with the look for a more modest outlay on the high street – like the John Lewis Overmantel mirror for example.
it absolutely screams the art deco era, with that angular overlapping design perfect for anyone looking for a 20s or 30s look in their home. It's sized around 107cm high and around 86cm wide, sold with fixings for the mirror itself, but not for your wall (as that depends on the wall it's going on).
Available online and probably instore, the John Lewis Overmantel mirror is yours for £195.
A giant of pop art meets a genius of pop music – and together Sir Peter Blake and Brian Wilson have produced the Lucky Old Sun Box Set.
Strictly limited to 1,000 copies worldwide, this really will be a future collectable – a set of 12 collage screenprints by Sir Peter Blake, intended as a look at life through Brian's eyes at California, even taking the name of Brian's latest album. if that's not enough, the set also packs in a cloth bound book signed by Peter Blake and Brian Wilson, three pages of reproduced sheet music and lyrics for the new track ‘Midnight’s Another Day’, a laminated VIP pass and a CD of the album.
Obviously this doesn't come cheap – £900 (+vat) will secure you one. But be warned, once a fraction of the stock has sold, the price will rise to £1,250 (+vat). So if you want one, get one now.
Via Switched On Art
These Sagaform juicy glasses are an easy and attractive way of introducing a shot of retro pattern into your home. They are designed by Lotta Odelius and use the combination of a stylised version of fruit slices and different eye-catching colour combinations to produce a look as mouth watering as their name suggests.
They are sold as a set of four for £16.90.
