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• John Lewis modernist-inspired Penelope task lamp
• House Industries x Heath Ceramics Eames house numbers
• 1960s-style Tea Dance linen dress
• Rubik's Cube Mug and Rubik's Cube Coasters
• For sale: 1950s Erno Goldfinger-designed Wellesley House property in Broadstairs, Kent

John Lewis modernist-inspired Penelope task lamp Posted: 26 Feb 2011 09:15 AM PST 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

House Industries x Heath Ceramics Eames house numbers Posted: 26 Feb 2011 08:49 AM PST This is something of a 'coming soon', but these House Industries x Heath Ceramics Eames house numbers are coming very soon. Yes, those nasty brass house numbers on your outer wall can be converted into something that's both midcentury and utterly cool, a range of numbers using the Eames Century Modern font, sized at 6 x 6 inches (so pretty big) and printed on clay tiles with a matte glazed finish. They'll be available in late spring directly from the Heath site, priced at $45 each. Another shot over the page. Find out more at the Heath Ceramics website

1960s-style Tea Dance linen dress Posted: 26 Feb 2011 08:24 AM PST If you're after a mod-inspired 60s look without breaking the bank, this Tea Dance linen dress could be right up your street. Inspired by the streets of swinging London, the dress has a round neck, button detail at front, side pockets and zip and hook fastening at back. It's also fully lined. If the 'raspberry coulis' shade above is a bit strong, there's also a 'storm' (aka black). Both retail for the same price, which is £66. Find out more at the Great Plains website

Rubik's Cube Mug and Rubik's Cube Coasters Posted: 26 Feb 2011 08:01 AM PST From being the must-have puzzler game of the 1980s, the Rubik's Cube more of an iconic design, lending its shape and colours to all manner of modern-day items. The Rubik's Cube Mug and Rubik's Cube Coasters are the most recent. Both are on pre-order now, with the mug following the 'Cube' shape as closely as possible, but throwing in a 'special curved lip' so it's actually easy to drink out of. The coasters also ape the cube, stacking on top of each other to create a cube when not in use. If you want one of either, the mug is £8.99, while the coasters are £12.99. See a shot of the coaster over the page. Find out more at the Spinning Hat website

For sale: 1950s Erno Goldfinger-designed Wellesley House property in Broadstairs, Kent Posted: 26 Feb 2011 03:31 AM PST 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? The three-bedroom house was designed by Goldfinger in the early 50s for teachers at the nearby Wellesley House preparatory school. On the face of it, they are fairly straightforward properties, but they do have many typical Goldfinger features including large windows, 'intelligent use of space' and an eye-catching, ribbed flat roof. In terms of specifics, you get those three bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor, a living room, dining room, kitchen and hallways on the ground floor, along with a large garden, garage and (interestingly), an outside WC, presumably original to the property. Oh yes, it's also around 15 minutes' walk from the beach. Always a bonus, which perhaps makes up a little for the fairly bland interior. Saying that, it was probably always fairly simplistic. Price? Offers around £250,000. The image below, by the way, is the house in its original form. Find out more at the Modern House website

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