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May the Style Be With You: Star Wars Inspired Space Age Interior Design and Home Decor
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items The Star Wars universe has always understood one thing that most sci-fi gets wrong: the future has texture. Spacecraft that look like they have been repaired a dozen times. Cantinas with dim lighting and mismatched stools. Control rooms with surfaces...full styling guide on the blog for more on how to build this look room by room.
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Objects and Decor
Furniture
Storage and Shelving
Wall Decor
Lighting
Objects and Decor
Just Andersen's Danish pewter candelabra looks like a piece of spacecraft hardware that has been repurposed for candlelight. The organic, sculptural form in dark pewter reads alien and ancient at once - two qualities the Star Wars universe understand...
Just Andersen Pewter Candle Holder Candelabra Denmark 2688
A three-legged silver plate bowl from Denmark sits on a coffee table or shelf and looks like a deliberate design decision rather than a catch-all. The tripod base gives it a slightly otherworldly quality - grounded on three points, minimal surface ar...
Danish Silver Plate Bowl - Three-Legged Footed Form - Minimalist - 4 1/2"
A brushed aluminum dish on ball feet is the everyday object that looks like it was designed in 1968 for the space program and ended up in a living room instead. Use it as an entryway catchall, a coffee table tray, or a display surface for other small...
Mid Century Modern Brushed Aluminum Dish on Ball Feet | MCM Aluminum Dish
A retro-futuristic desk clock with a spherical or orbital form is the desktop object that signals the whole room's sensibility in one piece. The Orbitron reads like a prop from a better-funded science fiction film - custom colors, silent movement, ma...
Orbitron Desk Clock Retro Futuristic Space Age Desk Clock, Mid Century Modern Design, Silent Non-Ticking Quartz Custom Colors, Made in USA
An aluminum wine rack from the 1980s is, in the right context, a piece of modernist sculpture. The open metal frame and minimalist construction look like something from an Imperial Officer's quarters - functional, silver, slightly cold in the best wa...
Vintage 1980s Aluminum Wine Rack | Modernist Metal Sculpture | MCM Bar Cart Decor | Minimalist Silver Shelf | Housewarming Gift
A minimalist ceramic bowl near the door or on a desk surface is the quietest piece on this list. In a room full of chrome and sculptural objects, something this simple is a relief rather than an afterthought. Use it for a single succulent, a few keys...
Minimalist Succulent or Orchid Planter | Entryway Organizer Key Bowl | Ceramic Catchall Tray for Mid Century Modern Coffee Table
Hammered iron with a brutalist surface reads like something salvaged and repurposed - which is precisely the aesthetic the franchise built its most beloved ships from. Under a pillar candle on a coffee table beside silver and chrome objects, the roug...
Brutalist Hammered Wrought Iron Candle Plate | Entryway Organizer & Key Bowl | Large Coffee Table Decor | 6 in x 6 in
A brass taper candlestick in a space age room provides the warm material counterpoint the aesthetic needs. Chrome and aluminum read cold without something to push against - brass does that job. The MCM form keeps it from looking like it belongs in a ...
Midcentury Modern Brass Candle Stick Holder | MCM Metal Sculpture Taper Candle Holder for Bookcase or Coffee Table Decor
A vintage glass cake stand repurposed as a display surface or catchall brings the transparent, slightly architectural quality of glass into the metal-heavy palette of this list. Use it elevated on a shelf to display small chrome objects, or place it ...
Vintage Glassware Cake Stand | Entryway Table Key Bowl and Catchall Tray | Bathroom Vanity Jewelry Organizer | Candle Holder for Book Shelf
A set of small ceramic trays in a neutral glaze is the practical grounding piece that keeps a space age room from reading entirely as display. Use them on a coffee station, a kitchen shelf, or a desk surface where things need to be organized without ...
Small Ceramic Trays | Midcentury Modern Dinner Set of 4 | Coffee Station Dessert Plates | Vintage Dining and Serveware for Kitchen Shelf
Furniture
A cream boucle swivel chair is one of the most specifically Star Wars-adjacent pieces of furniture available in a regular home furnishings market. The curved form, the pale upholstery, the swivel base - it reads like concept art for a Republic counci...
24 Hours Delivery Luxury Swivel Arm Chair Cream Beige Boucle LOWI
A low-slung wood lounge chair with a clean silhouette brings the Tatooine-adjacent earthiness of the franchise into a room that is otherwise leaning futuristic. Natural wood in a space age interior acts as the counterweight - organic and grounded aga...
Low Profile Solid Wood Lounge Chair – Japanese-inspired Minimalist Accent Chair - Etsy
An acid green hourglass stool from the Italian space age design era is the statement piece that commits fully to the aesthetic. The form reads alien and optimistic at once - it belongs in a reading corner, beside an orb lamp, or anywhere a room needs...
1970s Italian Space Age Hourglass Plastic Stool, Robur Style in Acid Green.
A small round wood end table beside a boucle swivel chair or a space age stool is the grounding companion piece the aesthetic needs. Simple form, honest material. Dark brown beside cream and chrome creates the layered contrast that keeps a retro-futu...
Benjara Accent 20.25 in. Dark Brown Round Wooden End Table BM327891
A white leather postmodern sofa from Italy looks like it belongs in a command room or a very considered apartment near the Senate district. The clean curves and pale palette read simultaneously luxurious and clinical - which is exactly the tension th...
Natuzzi Italian Postmodern White Leather Sofa
A square coffee table in tobacco oak grounds the space age seating with real material weight. The dark finish reads like the wooden surfaces aboard the Millennium Falcon - worn, purposeful, everything else around it. Use it with chrome objects on top...
Nova Tobacco Oak 48" Square Coffee Table
Storage and Shelving
A mirrored chrome cube shelf system is both storage and sculpture. It reflects the room back at itself, multiplies the light from orb lamps, and gives small objects a dramatically reflective stage. Use it as a side table, a display surface, or stack ...
Modular Mirrored Shelf System, Futuristic Chrome Storage Cube, Industrial Side Table
Emma Gismondi Schweinberger's Giano Vano is one of the most specifically space age objects available in the secondhand market. Artemide plastic, rolling base, sculptural form - it reads like a prop that graduated to furniture. Use it as a side table,...
Artemide Giano Vano Side Table on Wheels – Emma Gismondi Schweinberger – Italian Space Age Plastic Nightstand 1960s 1970s – Pop Art Vintage
Wall Decor
A laser-cut TIE Fighter frame is the wall piece that earns its place in a room that is already doing the work elsewhere. Put something meaningful inside it - a photo, a small print, an image from the films - and it becomes a focal point rather than a...
Tie Fighter Inspired Picture Frame - Laser-Cut Star Wars Style Space Decor
A Death Star outlet cover is the smallest and most specific detail on this list - and in a room that is already committed to the aesthetic, it is the right kind of detail. The kind of thing visitors notice after they have been in the room for a while...
Star Wars Death Star Outlet Cover, Nerd Gamer Room Decor
Wall paneling that replicates the geometric pattern language of the Death Star's interior architecture is the most committed architectural detail on this list. Use it on a single feature wall behind a desk or display shelf. The fretwork pattern reads...
Space Station Wall Pattern, Wall Panels, Wall Paneling, Imperial Galactic Wall Panel, Fretwork Panel Set, SKU:SSWP
Lighting
An orange orb lamp is the single most evocative piece on this list for anyone who grew up watching Star Wars. The warm glow, the spherical form, the way it sits on a surface and makes everything around it feel slightly cinematic - this is the lamp fo...
Orange Acrylic LED Orb Lamp: Retro Futuristic Night Light
An arc lamp with a clean sweep of chrome or matte black brings the dramatic architectural lighting of a spacecraft interior into a living room. The arc form casts light downward over a seating area in a way that feels both practical and designed. Pos...
Astoria Arc Lamp
The only lamp on this list that makes the franchise reference explicit. The RGB tower lamp shifts color, reads like a lightsaber in lamp form, and belongs on a desk or shelf in a room that is already committed to the aesthetic. For the space that wan...
Star Wars Desk Lamp - RGB LED Multicolour - Display - Collectible
A vintage Eglo orange glass ball lamp is the analog version of the orb aesthetic - warm glass, mid-century German engineering, the kind of light that looks like it was designed to go to the moon. This one has genuine vintage weight and a quality that...
Eglo Leuchten space age table lamp, orange glass ball lamp