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Present Time retro table lamp

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The retro table lamp by Present Time does exactly what it claims to do. In this case, the 'retro' is a 60s look with the ball head of the lamp giving it a Space Age look. Add to this a metallic stand and trim, contrasting to a bright red head, and it's a neat looking design for not very much outlay. Not such a fan of the red? The lamp is also available in a subtler black or a spacey silver.

It's also currently reduced in price. It was on sale for £50 but is now selling for £37.50. 

Buy it from Debenhams

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eBay watch: 1970s space age Colani flying saucer ceiling lamp

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A fantastic space age design – and this Colani flying saucer ceiling lamp is currently available for just £1.

It's a superb design, one of the more distinctive of the era and not a commonly-seen one either, especially in this condition and in this shade of brown.

According to the seller, that condition is described as 'good above-average' and 'near mint', aside from a 'very few fine and slight marginal scratches'. All of which makes the current £1 price tag something of a steal.

Find out more at the eBay website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Beware the moon jam jars wallpaper

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Here's some paper bound to introduce some sixties fun into your home, Jam Jars wallpaper from Beware the Moon.

Okay, jam jars aren't normally known for their high-tech looks, but here the shape of the jar has been abstracted, giving it a Pop look which outshines its humble inspiration. The surface of the paper reflects lights, walls and other features of the room to produce a striking look that's luckily more space age/less the tin foil episode of Spaced!

A roll measures 56cm x 10m and costs £76.50. 

Buy it from Rockett St George

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eBay watch: Original 1970s Verner Panton Panthella floor lamp

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You can still buy these and you can find out details of the new ones in a previous post, but if you want an original Verner Panton Panthella floor lamp with a bit of age and less of a price tag, eBay is currently the place to be.

The original was designed in 1970 by Panton for Louis Poulsen. A space age classic, it had that stylish curved shape, made of high pressure moulded opal acrylic, with the supporting stand in high pressure moulded polycarbonate structure built around a steel stem.

This one is described as a 'very early edition', with a few tiny age marks to reassure you. It's also got the original paper label attached. £450 is the approximate price of a new one, but this one is on eBay right now for just 99p.

Find out more at the eBay website

Categories / Architecture, Film and TV, Property

For sale: Charles Deaton’s Sculptured House – 1960s space age house from Woody Allen’s Sleeper in Denver, Colorado, USA

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Big thanks to Bob Luedeka for flagging up the sale of arguably the most famous space age house ever built – Charles Deaton's Sculptured House.

You probably know it better as the house in Woody Allen's futuristic 1973 movie Sleeper, but the property pre-dates that year, designed and built in 1963, just outside Denver, Colorado and covering 7,500 sq. ft. over three floors. It was last sold in 1999 by software millionaire John Huggins for $1.3 million, a native of the area who picked up the place in a state of serious neglect – and went about restoring it back to its former glory.

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Zanotta 1960s space age Karelia armchair reissued

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Is your home lacking some mad space age design? You might want to consider investing in the Zanotta Karelia armchair.

A bizarre piece of seating that could only come from the 1960s, It was actually design in 1966 by Liisi Beckmann, offering a polyurethane foam frame covered in either white, yellow, green, red, blue or black vinyl Texiré fabric. Alternatively, you can go upmarket and opt for leather upholstery in various coloured finishes.

Either way, you get a seat that's unlikely to impress your gran, but is sure to be a talking point for almost everyone else. Whether any of them would want to sit on those ridges? Well, that's another matter altogether. Prices start at £1,255.

Find out more at the Nest website