Archives – furniture design
NEW – Destination Modernism
Are you one of those crazy people who instead of heading for the beach goes out of their way to book planes, trains and automobiles to an incredible piece of…
Brass knobs and Berliners
“Rumour has it this footbridge featured in ‘A Clockwork Orange’” says Felicia Strehmel of Lilly’s Lightbox Company. The passionate amateur photographer, London-based East Berliner and upcycler extraordinaire, turns drawers restored from…
Goldfinger Going Going Gone
Snap up the Goldfinger Haggerston mug by ensuring you get into our spanking new show in East London early. Modern Shows (Midcentury Modern and The Midcentury Show) commissioned People Will Always…
‘Isokon – for ease, for ever’ – History of the Penguin Donkey
Would it make you feel good to hear that even those in the know get it wrong sometimes? They do, which means every Midcentury Modern you could be a sniff away from…
Mid-century Mick-takers
We love a new company with a fresh approach. Whatever you call them upcyclers, reconditioners or creative customising supernovas, Humblesticks is here to have fun as well as sell furniture.…
Desk Dynamo
We started checking our bank statements the minute this unusual English desk lamp by ‘Perihel’ Circa 1950 landed in our inbox. It was originally used as a medical ‘heat lamp’.…
Things we have loved and lost
Determined not to be bad drug dealers – our drug of choice being mid-century furniture – Petra and I have let many beautiful pieces over the ten years go since…