Yes, you have read it right – you could be the proud owner of the original Batmobile.
Ok, it wasn’t the only one, there were four made in total by custom car man George Barris for the 60s TV series, but it’s still quite a catch. It goes up for auction at the end of February at Coys auction house. But before you slip on the cape and mask, make sure you have plenty of cash in your pocket – it’s estimated to sell for around £75,000.
Via Gizmodo UK
Granted for most people a classic bike is the Chopper, but for the enthusiast, it’s probably something like the Paris Galibier bicycle, which has been reissued by leading maker Condor.
It was originally designed by Harry Rensch in 1947, at the time the most advanced lightweight bike around, it also offered greater alignment and more rigidity than the more orthodox frames of the time.
Recently chosen by Wallpaper magazine as its Bike Of The Year, you can pick up the frame and fork from around £1,200 – so it’s very much for enthusiasts – and rich ones at that.
Condor website
Image via Cycling Plus
If you want to add a bit of 60s style to your kitchen, or just brighten it up, the retro espresso tower and cappuccino tower could be just the things you need.
The cups are in a mix of retro colours, ready to pop out as and when you need them. Six cups in each set (and six saucers with the espresso cups) along with the metal holder. They retail for £15 per set.
We like to give you something to do as well as some ideas of what to buy, and the new exhibition Figuring Space: Sculpture/Furniture from Mies to Moore, at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds is one to go and see.
It opened last week and runs until the 1st of April, and explores the relationship between sculpture and furniture, and how they both work to shape the environment they inhabit.
Work by Mies van der Rohe including his famous Barcelona Chair will be exhibited alongside Henry Moore sculptures. The exhibition also includes signature pieces of furniture by Charles and Ray Eames and Arne Jacobsen’s Egg Chair which were designed to be looked at as well as sat on, therefore blurring the line between sculpture and furniture.
If you can’t get to the exhibition the site has lots of installation views which are worth a look.
Here’s a solution to the ugliness of modern-day cars – take the workings of a modern-day BMW Z3 and convert it into a vintage Mercedes-Benz 190 SL sports car.
It’s the work of Japanese company Duesen Bayern, with the finished model going under the name Duesen Bayern Mystar and offering the best of both worlds – a modern-day engine with the looks of a real classic. No news on price or the service being offered outside Japan – if it is, we’ll let you know (and perhaps see you in the queue).
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Jean Prouvé produced some interesting designs on both sides of the second world war – the Cité Armchair being a classic from his early days, designed for a competition for furnishing the halls of residence at Nancy’s cité universitaire in 1930 – and still in production today.
It’s very much the easy chair, used by Prouvé to kick back in his own home. It uses a moulded sheet steel base, with a seat and back made from a single piece of fabric or leather and armrests made from natural leather straps.
This modernist gem went back into production in 2001 through Vitra and is still available today. Expect to pay about £2,000 and wait a while – as all are made to order.
