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20 of the best retro orange table lamps

20 of the best retro orange table lamps

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Five of the best portable cassette players

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Classic mini Vox guitars for hip kids

Categories / Gadgets and Tech

ViviCam 8027 retro compact camera

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Most of the retro compact cameras on the market are high-end, high-priced objects. That's not the case with the ViviCam 8027.

But despite that budget price tag, it's not a bad little thing, both in terms of 60s-like styling (loving the leather outer) and in specification. For your money, you get an 8.1 megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, anti-shake technology, red-eye removal a 2.4-inch LCD screen, SD card slot, VGA video recording and a rechargeable battery. Pretty much everything you need for some casual snapping.

And all for an expected price tag of just £70.

Find out more at the Vivitar website

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Categories / Design and Interiors

Pietro Chiesa Fontana modernist coffee table

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Tables don't get much more minimalist than the Pietro Chiesa Fontana coffee table.

A modernist classic dating back to 1932, the Fontana has remained timeless purely down to that simplicity – cured and ground 'float' glass in various sizes, but all with that same straightforward shape.

It's exhibited in the MOMA in New York and you can have one in your home too from around £700.

Find out more at the Panik Design website

Categories / Women's Fashion

1950s-style cropped top

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Very gradually, the winter gloom seems to be lifting and thoughts are turning to summer days ahead. Perfect for a picnic in the park is this 1950s-style cropped top. With a sweetheart neckline and button through front, the pretty stamp and postmark print evokes the bygone glamour of foreign travel.

It's priced at an extremely reasonable £15.75, leaving plenty of change for ice creams.

Buy the top from the ASOS website

Categories / Homeware

Daniel Heath High Wire Wallpaper

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Daniel Heath makes beautiful hand printed wallpaper inspired by the circus. Pieces of whimsical Victoriana, they are as fantastic as claimed in the sample of High Wire shown here. His other designs are no less fanciful: The Greatest Show on Earth illustrates the famous P.T. Barnum surrounded by the tools of his trade, whilst Fantastic Jumbo, as you may guess by the name, features some very well trained elephants and an extravaganza of show ponies and stars. The beautifully faded looking blue, green or sepia colours complete the retro look.

At £250 a roll, it's not the cheapest way of introducing a spot of old-fashioned glamour into your home, but it is possibly one of the most crowd pleasing.

See more details at The Shop Floor Project

Categories / Books, Film and TV, Women's Fashion

Edith Head’s How to Dress for Success

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How to Dress for Success

Edith Head’s no-nonsense style guide from 1967, How to Dress for Success, is being reissued by V&A Publishing. Head was arguably Hollywood’s most famous and influential costume designer, responsible for the clothes in over a thousand films including Roman Holiday, The Birds and Sunset Boulevard.

 

Illustrated using Head’s own delightful line drawings, the book contains witty advice on life’s perennial problems such as exactly how to look younger and slimmer and just how to attract and keep a man. In a chic lilac cloth binding and priced at only £8.99, it offers invaluable inspiration for replicating that vintage Hollywood look.

 

Pre-order a copy from the V&A Shop website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware, Kids

Graziela Preiser’s children’s designs

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Graziela Preiser’s bright and fun designs for children were deservedly popular in 1970s Germany, where they were reproduced on bed linen, clothing and crockery. Today’s kids can now also benefit as Graziela’s daughter has begun re-issuing the designs, starting with ‘1,2,3’ pictured here. The most stylish nurseries can have it as a cot bumper or a duvet set, or it’s available as a wall organizer. Prices start at £32.

Graziela’s archive of work can be viewed on her website with the opportunity to vote for which pattern should be re-released next.

Find out more on the website By Graziela