We featured the floor versions of these on Retro To Go recently, but we also love the Tom Dixon Fluoro Shade pendant light too.
Like the floor lamp, the Fluoro Shade pendant light is a blow moulded polycarbonate lamp that's coated in fluorescent orange with a matt finish. The end result? A piece of design that's both functional and eye-catching, even when it's turned off.
Currently on sale at Nest, you can pick one up for £174.25.
A very modern house that takes a little nod to the past - Paterson House on the East Lothian Coast, Scotland.
Designed in 2005 by Paterson Architects, it was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of traditional rural dwellings, built to take advantage of the views towards the sea on the East Lothian Coast. The house is a timber frame structure, clad in Western red cedar, sitting atop a concrete base cut into the site and offering three bedrooms, two bathrooms, an open plan living/dining/kitchen area, study, utility room and rooflights to take advanrtage of both the sun and those views.
See over the page for another view of the house and if it makes you want to head to up to the Edinburgh area, the house is for sale for around £399,000.
Modern House website
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A piece of furniture that's very much designed for purpose - the Volume storage unit by Test Collective.
The purpose is simple - to store your records and hold the equipment for playing them all. That means room for a deck, mixer, vinyl-friendly shelving, display areas for your vinyl and some extra space for your bits and pieces, all made from bamboo and corian.
If we were being pedantic, we would ask where the speakers go, not to mention the second deck. Aside from that, it's perfect for lovers of long-players and available to buy direct for an as-yet undisclosed price.
Test Collective website
Via Analog Apartment
Yes, it does look like an old sea mine or perhaps something out of an old sci-fi movie - but there's no denying that the Nova Calisto pendant light is an eye-catching piece of interior design.
The work of Anu Moser and part of a range of three similar Nova shades, the Calisto is a mouthblown shade made from three layers of glass, with pieces added manually after the shade has been blown to give it that distinctive look.
If you think that sounds like a pain to change to the bulb, don't worry, a patented hanging system makes it both easy to suspend and indeed, to access that bulb. Not cheap at £478, but you're buying a piece of art as much as a piece of functional design.
Made in Design website
If minimalism is your thing, we suspect you just might love the Cann table lamp by Sonodesign.
A plain, almost retro design in either black or white gloss finish, the lamp is handmade from high quality steel, offering a hefty shade, solid base and matching stem, along with a 60w pearl bulb to get you started right away.
Available online, it's yours for £175.
Where Did You Buy That website
If you love your vinyl, you'll love the Bughouse Scratch DJ Coffee Table.
No, it doesn't spin your records, but it does allow you place two of your favourites within, your prize vinyl then protected by a glass top, perfect for showing off those rarities to your crate diggin' mates. The DJ 'console', as you might have guessed, is an image transfer, printed onto pine laminate.
Pine sides and brushed chrome legs finish things off, with the whole thing selling for $850, which works out at around £515. See over the page for a close-up look.
Bughouse Art & Design
Fancy owning some original David Hockney artwork? Even better, fancy owning it without paying a penny? You can if you visit the BBC website in the next two days, where three examples of the iconic artist's iPhone art are available for download.
Yes, he's 70 years old and he's got an iPhone. Not only that, Hockney is using it to create images like the one pictured above, which is one of the three being made available for download. Ok, they're not A Bigger Splash, but they are only available for 48 hours, so in effect, they're limited editions.
The images are online to coincide with the superb David Hockney - A Bigger Picture documentary, which covers Hockney at work on his return to his native Bridlington in Yorkshire. If you missed it, you can watch it again via the BBC website.
David Hockney iPhone art downloads
Designed by Jesper K. Thomsen for Normann Copenhagen, the Camping Series is a high-end design series of what tends to be disposable and foldaway.
Which means chairs, a table, a stool and a daybed in moulded beech wood (with a natural finish), full grain leather seating and high quality workmanship, as everything in the range is handmade.
The chair is above, while the daybed is over the page. Prices, as you can imagine, are high - starting at £1,090 per piece.
Bodie & Fou website
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A seat inspired by the farmyard - the Established & Sons Heidi Stool.
How? Well, the seat is based on a classic tractor seat, chosen for its 'ergonomic shape' and made of a colour gel coated polyester resin, while the legs are based on a three-legged milking stool, produced from oiled European oak.
Two sizes and three colours - prices start at £270.
Nest website
Classy or cheesy? We'll let you make your own mind up on the Sony Vaio Signature Collection notebooks.
The series itself isn't completely tacky, there are some pretty smart high gloss finishes for matching up your computer with your home office, but we're drawn towards the CS390, which goes for that fake crocodile skin finish with metallic trim that looks (to us) like a cheap handbag off the market - although if Sony sent us one, I'm sure we could offer a more reasoned view.
Only the US for these right now, with prices starting at $749.99 (around £450), which seems pretty reasonable for a decent notebook, especially if you love fake croc.
Sony Style website
N16 Design describes its products as 'well-built modern furniture at prices within reach of most'. Which just about sums up the N16 Design coffee table.
At first glance, you might think it looks slightly retro, but on second glance, we think it looks more futuristic, an ABS plastic frame with polyurethane foam fill, with a choice of toughened glass or off white lacquer for the surface.
A variety of colours available, with the table yours for £295.
N16 Design website
An Aston Martin on your drive for the price of an average runaround? That's what you'll get with the Aston Martin Cygnet, which is due to launch in 2010.
It's not strictly a 'new' car, rather it is based on the recent Toyota iQ, with a similar shape, a 1.0 or 1.33-litre engine (same as the iQ) and low emissions, which will also mean less road tax. The big difference? Well, of course, it will carry an Aston Martin badge, as well as what's described as a 'luxurious' interior, the kind of thing you might expect on the Bond-friendly big brother.
Aston Martin will make between 1,000 - 2,000 Cygnets a year, selling for around the £20,000 mark.
Aston Martin website
