Mass produced design classics you can still buy new today

[pistonheadforum]

In homage to the very enjoyable "Just beautiful objects" thread that quickly spirraled into mega-money land.

A thread for objects that are still made and you consider (almost) perfect it terms of fuction and form. They should be affordable to all (no boats/cars etc!).

Appreciate that affordable is subject to debate.

I could not find a thread similar, so thought I'd start this one.

Just little objects that you might use on a day-to-day basis that are a joy to use, make the day a bit brighter and your time on this planet generally a nicer experience. Things you don't have to win the lottery to afford.

Here are few to start off

Casio F-91W (£7)



HP 50g Calculator (worth it for RPN alone) (£90)

[Olivero]

Apart from almost cutting a finger off when I was young, this is just about perfect.

[djt100]

It's the simple things

[drivin_me_nuts]

Chupa Chups.. Dali made a font as tasty as the sweet. Beautiful, satisfying design.

[ILoveMondeo]

proper anglepoise of course.

[ILoveMondeo]

swiss army knife too...

and about a million fancy chairs that cost about 5 grand, and are massively uncomfortable to sit in!

[wilfandrowlf]

How about a pair of these?

[davek_964]

wilfandrowlf said:

How about a pair of these?

In the long run, they usually work out more expensive than the boats / cars etc we're not supposed to include.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

eames chairs basically all of them just a few here

[Reg Local]

Apart from boobs, the first couple which spring to mind are Opinel pen knives:



And Zippo lighters:

[HTP99]

[juice]

[RDMcG]

Peugeot pepper mill...perfect......

[Trustmeimadoctor]

alessi juicer


panton s chair


Iittala Alvar Aalto Vase



Jacobsen's Swan and Egg Chairs

[The Vambo]

drivin_me_nuts said:

Chupa Chups.. Dali made a font as tasty as the sweet. Beautiful, satisfying design.

How am I just finding this out?

And the Bailetti Mokka pot

Edited by The Vambo on Tuesday 5th January 18:09

[plasticpig]

It's estimated there are around 200 million guns based on the AK 47 design.

[Stickyfinger]

plasticpig said:

It's estimated there are around 200 million guns based on the AK 47 design.

Raise you 1000 or so rpm

[Jimmy Recard]

It's not quite the same as the first one in 1957 but it's not bad.

[motco]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

eames chairs basically all of them just a few here

The original Robin Day chair was around very early on - 1960s

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Horrible horrible memories of that damn chair