Categories / Design and Interiors

No Singing, No Dancing, No Swearing chalkboard

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We have covered Dodo Designs previously – and although this No Singing, No Dancing, No Swearing chalkboard isn’t the work of that particular company, it is very much in its style.

Yes, we’re talking mock Victoriana with a modern twist, this time a sign for the room of your choice, featuring the text ‘Please, no singing, no dancing, no swearing, this is a respectable house’. And with a chalkboard underneath for you to add new rules, new abuse or just a few reminders of things you need to pick up.

Available online, you can pick it up for £6.95.

Find out more at the Lavenue website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Retro Glass Pendant light fitting

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Looking like a cross between the Ikea Fado light and the Flying Saucer light fitting we featured some time back is this Retro Glass Pendant fitting.

We’re talking serious 1970s here, not least with the shade of brown used in the glass. Aside from that, this has a fitting almost identical to the Fado in chrome and those distinctive clear circles that are sure to create a strange light effect in your living room.

Available online, this can be yours for £32.40.

Find out more at the Direct Light website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Pencil Bench – office seating made from 1600 pencils

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Ideal for an office – especially one that uses a lot of pencils – is this Pencil Bench from Boex.

It’s a bench that was created as an experiment, to see if it was possible to turn an everyday office object into a piece of furniture. And it was – although it took 1600 pencils, each individually sprung for your seating comfort. And if you’re short of a pencil, it’s not a problem, as each can be removed and used. Oh yes – and it has a smart dark wood frame too.

The Pencil Bench has won various design awards over the last year, but hasn’t yet gone into commercial production. Although I’m sure they will make you one if you ask nicely.

Find out more at the Boex website

Categories / Design and Interiors

ChinaVision’s retro chrome flip down clock

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We have a Cifra 5 clock in the living room – a really smart piece of 1950s design by Gino Valle. This retro chrome flip down clock isn’t in that league, but it follows a similar principle.

It uses similar flip down technology, but rather than the usual boxed-in look, this new clock from ChinaVision has the numbers hanging from a chrome stand. If it’s anything like the Cifra 5, it could be slightly noisy, but that’s a small price to pay for something that looks so good.

No price as yet, keep checking the ChinaVision website for an update.

Find out more at the ChinaVision website

Via Tech Chee

Categories / Watches

TAG Heuer updates 1964 Grand Carrera watch

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The TAG Heuer Monaco isn’t the company’s only updated classic on the market, you can also pick up the latest version of the TAG Heuer Grand Carrera, a watch first introduced in 1964.

This 60s timepiece was inspired by GT racing, but has been consistently popular as a smart watch with a very readable display. This latest version uses twin discs to replace the usual hands on the chronograph dials to make it even more readable, as well as having discs finished with Cotes de Geneve decoration and polished bevelling.

Not cheap as you might expect, with prices starting at £1,995.

Find out more at the TAG Heuer website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Rothschild & Bickers Victorian-style Tassel lights

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Something a little different from Rothschild & Bickers – these Victorian-style Tassel lights.

Apparently ‘inspired by Victorian decadence’, the lights mix the modern with the vintage and indeed, vintage working methods as all the glass in the lights is hand-blown.

A choice of colours are available, all with matching tassel and with a choice if shapes, including the longer one above and a more flat design if you haven’t got a particularly high ceiling. Prices start at £230.

Find out more at the Rothschild & Bickers website