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(Photos: Vitsœ)

Good things come in Dieter Rams-designed packages, and all the better if they’re the original packages commissioned in 1962. Such is the impeccable logic of Vitsœ (“vit-soo”), the furniture company best known for its Rams-designed modular shelving system. Vitsœ turns 50 this year and is celebrating five decades of good design by releasing the last 50 original side tables designed by Rams. Commissioned by Niels Vitsœ and Otto Zapf in 1962 and last produced in the 1980s, the 621 side table is a pure, unobtrusive plastic arch available in two heights and finishes (black or off-white). The 50 tables, in their original packaging, go on sale September 4 at midnight GMT (that’s 8:00 p.m. Eastern) on the Vitsœ website. Priced at £195 (approximately $320) for the high version and £175 ($290) for the low, they’re bound to sell out Vitsœ-n.

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