Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 A Space Odyssey was one of those movies which transcended its medium and entered the collective consciousness of a generation and those which followed.
A watershed in Science Fiction on film, it created a new futuristic context for everyday objects like furniture [ source: Wikipedia ]
This is the George Nelson Action Office desk from Herman Miller's 1964 "Action Office" series - when Floyd exits the Space Station V elevator he is greeted by an attendant seated behind a slightly modified version.
This is the iconic Arne Jacobsen cutlery from Denmark used by the Discovery astronauts in the movie.
Here are the classic Djinn Chairs designed by Olivier Mourgue in 1965 and placed in neat groups in the Space Station.
Finally for now is Eero Saarinen's 1956 pedestal table used in the film as in this still with Leornard Rossiter and co.
Can you think of more icons from the film?
I've always been enamoured with the furniture in 2001 (and Space 1999) , until quite recently there was a furniture supplier overlooking the river at Shad Thames in the ground floor of a suitably Modernist stark white tower building that stocked very similar designs. It had always been my ambition to pick up a few pieces (when funds might allow !) but sadly the floor space is now empty and they have moved out.
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Fenton
Always the way Fenton. Used to happen to me all the time at car boot sales. I waited too long, went back and boom, gone. Where's the Shad Thames?
DeleteStones throw away from Tower Bridge by Chambers Wharf (where they filmed the "Foxhole On The Roof" episode of The Professionals)
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Ta Fenton.
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