Tag: modernist

Categories / Food and Drink

Manhattan Dining Collection from Marks and Spencer

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A striking contrast to some of their recent floral designs, Marks and Spencer are offering this Art Deco influenced Manhattan dining collection.

The designs are all straight lines and streamlined stripes and all the glamour you'd associate with that period. The shape of the teapot and the milk jug especially look to the more angular modernist style. Even better for a collection with such striking looks is that it's all dishwasher and microwave safe.  

Some items in the collection seem to be going out of stock, so grab what you can now. Prices start at £6 for a bowl. 

See the range online

Categories / Men's Fashion, Music

Uniqlo x Blue Note Records t-shirt range

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Modern-day fashion retailer Uniqlo has teamed up with an iconic, old school jazz label, producing the Uniqlo x Blue Note Records t-shirt range.

Uniqlo has teamed up with Blue Note for a range of shirts based on its classic album sleeves or the fonts used on the sleeves.Dexter Gordon's Go and Joe Henderson's In 'N Out are above, but check out the uniqlo site for the full 21 t-shirts in the range, most of which are available in various colours and all of which are made of 100 per cent cotton.

When the weather turns hot, stay looking cool for a fairly modest outlay. Each one retails for just £12.99.

Find out more at the Uniqlo website

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Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: 1970s modernist six-bedroomed house on Lakeside Drive, Esher, Surrey

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It might be out of reach financially for most of us, but this six-bedroomed house on Lakeside Drive, Esher, Surrey is well worth a look for its cool modernist architecture.

It was designed back in 1975  by renowned architect Royston Summers, not just in a sought-after location, but also built on the side of a lake, one of a group of 16 houses sharing this location. A location that's subject to preservation orders for both the lake and trees, as well as being a private road.

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Categories / Design and Interiors

John Lewis modernist-inspired Penelope task lamp

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Ok, stick with me on this one. The Kaiser idell Table Lamp 6631 is an original Bauhaus design, recently reissued for the modern era and available to you for a hefty £601. if you want a similar look for a fraction of the price, check out the John Lewis Penelope task lamp.

It's new in at John Lewis and is incredibly like the Bauhaus original, perfect for adding some modernist style to your home for very little outlay. Available in cream or white, it has a a metal bowl shade and circular base, joined by a C-shaped stem. Love that vintage-style switch too.

All of that for just £40.

Find out more at the John Lewis website

Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: 1950s Erno Goldfinger-designed Wellesley House property in Broadstairs, Kent

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We usually feature huge art deco, midcentury or modernist architectural masterpieces on these pages, great to look at, but pretty much always unaffordable to all of us. Well, here is a semi-detached house that's firmly in the 'affordable' bracket for more of us – but it's also an Erno Goldfinger-designed Wellesley House property in Broadstairs, Kent.

In truth, the designer and the history of the house are actually more interesting than the property, but just think…you can tell the world your home was designed by a modernist legend. How cool would that be?

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Categories / Design and Interiors

Alvar Aalto 75th Anniversary Artek 60 Stools in Bauhaus colours

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By Bauhaus, we mean the German design house, not the vintage goth band. Otherwise these Alvar Aalto 75th Anniversary Artek 60 Stools would all be black.

But no, they're in a red, yellow and blue lacquer to celebrate 75 years since Aalto created this modernist classic. Indeed, it's a design that's still popular and influential today and no doubt will be even more popular with a splash of bold colour.

As you would expect, the stools are still made of birch and are priced a little more than the plain version, £165 each.

Find out more at the Lollipop Shoppe website