Categories / Design and Interiors, Toys and Games

Alexander Girard Memory Game at House Industries

Girard_game

If you're going to buy a children's game, make it educational and of course, stylish – which is what you get with this Alexander Girard Memory Game at House Industries.

Yes, midcentury design on a child's game, offering up that uber-stylish casing, equally hip wooden blocks (72 in total) and hours of fun for a small child. That's if you trust your child near it – you might just want to keep it on display around the home, using the wooden squares as coasters when you've got stylish guests round.

Especially when you hear it retails for $320.

Find out more at the House Industries website

Categories / Gadgets and Tech

Brionvega 1960s-designed rr227 MP3 radio now available in the UK

Rr227

Ok, you got us – the MP3 format wasn't around in the 1960s. But the Brionvega rr227 radio was – and it's now available in the UK.

We first saw this back in late 2008, a 1965 design from the hands of Zanuso and Sapper, produced to work either horizontally or vertically for your AM/FM listening pleasure.

But the new version adds something new – an MP3 player, which you can feed via miniSD card or USB, playing back MP3 or WMA digital music files. Available in red, white or black, you can finally pick it up instore or online for £185.

Find out more at the Chaplins website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Branex reissues the 1960s Quasar inflatable lamp

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Back in 2008, Branex brought back the Quasar line of 1960s inflatable furniture. Now, in 2010, it's gone a stap further – reissuing the Quasar inflatable lamp.

Designed by the wonderfully-named Quasar Khanh back in 1969, taking the inflatable concept to an unlikely extreme. In 2010, it's something of an icon of that adsventurous era and a useful one too – it might be light, but that PVC is super-tough, three times as thick as the PVC usually used to manufacture inflatable furniture.

It's also a certain conversation starter as well as the perfect ceiling adornment, should you be going for that space age look. Various colours available (you can see another over the page), all priced at just over £58.

Find out more at the Made in Design website

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Categories / Film and TV

Network launches the Look Back on 70s Telly DVD range

Lookback

Feeling nostalgic for kids TV of the 1970s? Network feels your pain, bringing out the intriguing Look Back on 70s Telly DVD range.

Two sets initially in the range – volume one covering the lunchtime slot, volume two taking on the back from school selection. That means the likes of Rainbow, Pipkins, Hickory House, Mr. Trimble, Cloppa Castle, Gideon, Tingha and Tucker, Mumfie, The Magic Ball and Animal Kwackers on the first disc, Follyfoot, Black Beauty, Pauline’s Quirkes, Roberts Robots, Timeslip, Nobody’s House and Magpie on the second. Both of the two-disc sets also come with their own comic too.

Check out over the page for the full breakdowns of contents, with both sets selling for around £10 when they land in February.

Find out more at the Amazon website

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Categories / Design and Interiors

Classico 70s-style desk chair

Classico

Not unlike the Hamilton Chair at Habitat, the Classico desk chair offers a bit more comfort for a little more cash.

The frame is much the same, that chrome cantilever shape reminiscent of the 1970s. But unlike the Hamilton, this one has more bulk to the actual seating, throwing in some matching vinyl armrests too.

Sold full assembled, it sells for £129.

Find out more at the John Lewis website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Dwell 60s-style Twist stem dining table

Dining

When is a Tulip Table not a Tulip Table? When the frame is on an angle and it's being sold by Dwell as the Twist stem dining table.

It's every bit the Tulip copy, keeping the same type of base and similar proportions, but that 'Twist' stem, which sets it off at an angle, gives it a degree of originality.

Take your pick from a glossy black or white finish, with the table seating between 6 and 8 people, selling for £395 from the end of January.

Find out more at the Dwell website