Categories / Homeware

1950s Marianne Westman-designed Picknick chopping boards

Picknick

Back in July, we featured the reissue of a classic – the Marianne Westman-designed Picknick homeware range. Originally designed in 1956, it's a Scandinavian mid-century classic that still looks shaper today. If you invested in that, you'll no doubt be keen on owning these newly-launched Picknick cutting boards.

Like the rest of the range, the design features food laid out for a picnic, this time on a wooden board that's been laminated and available in a choice of three designs and sizes.

Prices start at £20.47.

Find out more at the Scandinavian Design Center website

Categories / eBay watch

eBay watch: 1970s Blessing tulip-style space age alarm clock

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Judging by the brisk bidding so far for this item, the Blessing alarm clock is an item in demand.

Straight out of the 1970s (as you might have guessed), it was made in (West) Germany, with a block and white colour scheme, circular colour scheme for the numbers and that tulip-style base. All of that in a clock that stands around seven inches tall.

As we said, plenty of interest already, although that interest has only resulted in a bidding price of £23 so far.

Find out more at the eBay website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Midcentury-style Sanna Chair by Room & Board

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No, this isn't actually a mid-century design, although the midcentury-style Sanna Chair by Room & Board isn't a million miles from the Hans Wegner CH25 armchair.

Love the slope and love the angled wood frame, which is 'mocha-stained' and available in a variety of colours for the rayon / polyester / cotton boucle mix upholstery.

But more than that, we like the fact that this will pass for a classic, but comes in for much less. $699 to be precise, which is around £437.

Find out more at the Room & Board website

Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: 1970-designed four-floor house in Antrim Grove, Belsize Park, London

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I've got this dream that one day, when I have some more money to my name, I'll go house hunting and find a house with an interior straight out of Terence Conran's The House book ('70s version) – just stuck in time, with all the furnishings of the era intact. I might have found that house online, with this 1970-designed four-floor house in Antrim Grove, Belsize Park, London

From the outside, you can tell it's a bit quirky and very much of its era, the kind of place you'd imagine featuring in a 70s cult TV series. Inside, it's even more so, with some great examples of period furnishings.

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Categories / Design and Interiors

Space Invaders mirrors by Piero Lissoni for Glas Italia

Invaders

Not exact replica of the arcade aliens, the Space Invaders mirrors by Piero Lissoni for Glas Italia are actually inspired by the pixelated nasties of video games past.

The end result is what you see above, a set of sharp-angled mirrors that can each by hung in four ways, as well as together, to create some kind of fuinctional space age art for your walls.

They're sized around the 80 x 70cm mark, with each one sold separately. Sadly, being designer pieces, they don't come cheap, with prices from £488.

Find out more at the Made in Design website

Categories / Homeware

All Aboard tea towel by Michelle Mason at To Dry For

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Michelle Mason is well known for her cute reinterpretations of traditional London imagery. This All Aboard tea towel, available from To Dry For, picks up on that theme. 

Printed in a simple red, white and black colour scheme, it features a row of red Routemaster buses, with a nostalgic sixties feel. To add to the jolly feel of the design, the image even includes a scottie dog perched atop of a stack of presents. 

The tea towel costs £9.25. 

See it online