New Arrivals
Designer: Piero Fornasetti
Maker: Compagnia del Tabacco under licence [ Italy ]
Made: c. 1980s
Material: Pressed frosted acrylic
Dimensions: W 21 x D 21 x H 50 cm
Quantity: One only
Condition: Very good
Well kept. Minimal wear, the result of careful use, and nothing that takes away from the piece.
Suns with faces at their centres, printed across all four sides of a tall frosted acrylic stand — Piero Fornasetti's Sole pattern, one of the motifs he drew for fifty years and never tired of. One sun tells you exactly whose it is.
Marked in gold on the face: Fornasetti Milano, by Compagnia del Tabacco, Made in Italy. The frosted ground is the clever part: the pattern reads from across a room while the object itself stays quiet. A beautiful thing by the front door, and useful as well.
Photographed honestly, in natural light, exactly as it is. No surprises when your new favourite thing arrives.
Everything we sell is 100% authentic. No reproductions, no replicas.
PS. We ship worldwide. For delivery outside Australia, contact us and we'll come back within a day with the best way to get your new favourite piece to you.
Made: Australia
Material: Steel rod and pressed steel, original paint
Dimensions: W 40 x D 45 x H 80 cm
Seat height: 40 cm
Quantity: One only
Condition: Good
Honest wear — marks and patina. Everything visible is photographed.
Hand made in Australia from bent steel rod with a pressed steel seat and back panel, finished in a green that has worn back in places to the metal beneath.
Nothing here has been restored. The paint is exactly as it was left, and the patina is the reason to own it. Surprisingly comfortable for something built out of sheet and rod, thanks to the curve pressed into the seat.
Photographed honestly, in natural light, exactly as it is. No surprises when your new favourite thing arrives.
Everything we sell is 100% authentic. No reproductions, no replicas.
PS. We ship worldwide. For delivery outside Australia, contact us and we'll come back within a day with the best way to get your new favourite piece to you.
Designer: Arne Jacobsen
Maker: Fritz Hansen [ Denmark ]
Designed: 1952
Material: Moulded plywood shell, upholstered wool, bronzed steel
Dimensions: W 52 x D 48 x H 81 cm, seat height 44 cm
Quantity: One only
Condition: Excellent
As new or close to it. No marks worth naming, nothing repaired, no wear from use.
Model 3101, front upholstered, four legs. Arne Jacobsen's Ant with the moulded shell front-upholstered in a soft oatmeal weave and slim bronzed steel legs.
The shape is the whole argument. One continuous pressed shell, waisted at the middle so the back flexes independently of the seat, which is why a chair this thin is comfortable. It stacks, and at three and a half kilos you can lift it with one finger.
Photographed honestly, in natural light, exactly as it is. No surprises when your new favourite thing arrives.
Everything we sell is 100% authentic. No reproductions, no replicas.
PS. We ship worldwide. For delivery outside Australia, contact us and we'll come back within a day with the best way to get your new favourite piece to you.
Designer: Fritz Nagel & Caesar Stoffi [ Germany ]
Maker: BMF
Designed: 1960s
Material: Chrome-plated steel
Dimensions: W 11.7 x D 11.7 x H 6.7 cm per module
Set: Five modules
Condition: Very good
Well kept. Minimal wear, the result of careful use, and nothing that takes away from the piece.
Five chrome modules, each standing on three legs with a ball-and-socket cup on top, that lock into one another so the set is never the same twice. Run them in a line down a dining table, build them into a cluster on a sideboard, or split them up and put single modules through a room.
Original BMF production from the 1960s, light in the hand, with the warmer, softer reflection the early plating has. Bright and even across the balls, which is the first place these show their age.
Photographed honestly, in natural light, exactly as it is. No surprises when your new favourite thing arrives.
Everything we sell is 100% authentic. No reproductions, no replicas.
PS. We ship worldwide. For delivery outside Australia, contact us and we'll come back within a day with the best way to get your new favourite piece to you.
Artist: Ken Done
Medium: Watercolour and oil crayon on paper
Made: 1998
Framed: Slim gold leaf moulding, deep cream mat, glass
Dimensions: Frame 60 x 60 cm, image 35 x 25 cm
Quantity: One only
Condition: Excellent
No foxing, no fading, no mat burn. Paper clean and flat, colours at full strength.
Watercolour laid down in that unmistakable harbour blue with oil crayon worked over it — the Opera House sails reduced to three triangles, the bridge to a row of black and white teeth, and behind them the city towers rising over Circular Quay in hatched coloured line. Ken Done is the artist who put Sydney on the world's postcards and turned the harbour into a brand, and this is the subject he's known for.
The two mediums do different jobs and you can see both. The watercolour pools and bleeds at the edges of the sails and the water, while the crayon sits up on the surface with real texture and a visible direction to every stroke.
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Photographed honestly, in natural light, exactly as it is. No surprises when your new favourite thing arrives.
Everything we sell is 100% authentic. No reproductions, no replicas.
PS. We ship worldwide — we'll include a delivery quote to anywhere outside Australia with your enquiry.
Designer: Ingo Maurer
Maker: Ingo Maurer [ Germany ]
Designed: 1992
Material: Frosted glass, goose feathers, brass, plastic
Dimensions: W 35 x D 20 x H 30 cm
Quantity: One only
Condition: Very good
Well kept. Minimal wear, the result of careful use, and nothing that takes away from the piece.
Ingo Maurer spent fifty years in Munich making light out of things nobody else thought to use, and the Lucellino is the one everybody knows — a bare frosted bulb given a pair of wings and left to it. He never explained it any further than that.
The wings are real goose feathers, wired individually by hand and set at a different angle on every lamp, so no two come out alike. Beneath them, two slim brass legs and a white disc base, with the red and clear wires left visible as part of the drawing. Switched on it does one thing beautifully: a small warm glow in a corner that people notice from across a room.
What makes it hold up is that nothing is hidden. Bulb, wire, feather and brass, all doing their job in the open, which is a much harder thing to get right than it looks. Comes in its original box. Retails new at $1,200.
Photographed honestly, in natural light, exactly as it is. No surprises when your new favourite thing arrives.
Everything we sell is 100% authentic. No reproductions, no replicas.
PS. We ship worldwide. For delivery outside Australia, contact us and we'll come back within a day with the best way to get your new favourite piece to you.
Designer: Matej Jansky & Cyril Dundera [ Czech Republic ]
Maker: Cappellini
Designed: 2021
Material: Black-stained ash, leather
Dimensions: W 76 x D 62 x H 74 cm
Seat height: 41 cm
Quantity: One only
Condition: Very good
Well kept. Minimal wear, the result of careful use, and nothing that takes away from the piece.
Two materials, wood and leather, and nothing else. The structure is solid black-stained ash. The seat and backrest are both strongly curved and wrapped entirely in leather, drawn over the curve rather than padded, so the shape comes from the form of the chair and not from stuffing. It holds its own shape and takes yours with use.
The proportions are light, and it is considerably more comfortable than the slimness of it suggests. The restraint is the point, and it hides how much work goes into getting a chair this thin to sit well.
Photographed honestly, in natural light, exactly as it is. No surprises when your new favourite thing arrives.
Everything we sell is 100% authentic. No reproductions, no replicas.
PS. We ship worldwide. For delivery outside Australia, contact us and we'll come back within a day with the best way to get your new favourite piece to you.
Designer: Philippe Malouin
Maker: Flos [ Italy ]
Material: Fine-ribbed polycarbonate, steel
Colour: Linen
Dimensions: W 10.4 x D 5.9 x H 20.3 cm
Quantity: One only
Condition: Good
Honest wear — marks and patina. Everything visible is photographed.
A beautiful piece of engineering disguised as a toy. Named after the 16th-century French cup-and-ball game — two fine-ribbed cylinders joined by a magnetic steel sphere, so the head sits wherever you push it and holds. Point it at a wall for ambient light, at a book to read by, or straight up for nothing in particular.
The magnet is the whole trick: no hinge, no friction joint, nothing to wear out or go loose. The steel ball has taken on some patina, and the cord has two small areas of discolouration. Everything works as it should.
Photographed honestly, in natural light, exactly as it is. No surprises when your new favourite thing arrives.
Everything we sell is 100% authentic. No reproductions, no replicas.
PS. We ship worldwide. For delivery outside Australia, contact us and we'll come back within a day with the best way to get your new favourite piece to you.