Another piece of design that defies its age – the Carlo Mollino Arabesco coffee table.

The coffee table was first introduced back in 1949, a typical example of Mollino’s trademark bent ply work, supporting a thick tempered curved glass top with the aid of stainless steel discs. And there’s a lower shelf too, should you need extra storage for your magazines.

It;s now been reissued by Zanottoa with a beech or cherry wood veneer, both priced at £1,849.

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Looking every bit the contemporary piece of home design, it’s hard to believe that Le Corbusier designed the LC5.F sofa/day bed back in 1934.

Over 70 years on, it’s still practical too, a hard-wearing sofa in black or white leather with a polished chrome-plated steel frame. But there’s more to it than that – the back cushions can be lowered to increase the width of the sofa seat to create a day bed or stylish single bed.

Obviously it’s not going to come cheap. Cassina has reissued it under license (complete with stamped signature and serial number), selling for £4,964.

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