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Five of the best portable cassette players

Classic mini Vox guitars for hip kids

Classic mini Vox guitars for hip kids

Vintage and 1960s t-shirt designs by Mr B’s Soulful Tees

Vintage and 1960s t-shirt designs by Mr B’s Soulful Tees

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Diane von Furstenberg Click Clack bag

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Sleek lines and handsomely coloured leather are something of a mainstay in 60s and 70s design, especially that of bags. This pair of Click Clack handbags are by Diane von Furstenberg, proving she’s still got the sensibilities that made her famous.

Whether in this burnt orange or stark white, this bag looks expensively made and wonderfully simplistic. It’s something of a rare find to see a retro styled bag without embellishment, so one of these is worth it for staying power alone.

Get a Click Clack bag from Matches Fashion online for £487.

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Categories / Art and Photography

James Brown retro-styled artwork at General Pattern

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No, not the sadly-missed singer, this James Brown is a London-based illustrator – and his retro-styled artwork is available to buy on the General Pattern website.

Check out all the prints on the site, but we like the two above, Voodoo and Bags. The first is a two colour screenprint on zerkall printing soft white paper sized at 38.5 x 53 cm, which you can buy for £40.

The second print is a one colour Linocut on off-white sugar paper, sized at 40 x 50cm. You can pick that one up for £20.

Find out more at the General Pattern website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Ikea Stockholm mid-century style console table

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Officially described as a ‘sofa bench’, we prefer to call it the Ikea Stockholm console table.

The idea of a sofa bench is for extra storage behind your sofa, but in its more traditional role, this console table offers slimline storage for a hallway or indeed any narrow room on its two shelves.

And being part of the Stockholm range, it offers a 50s-style mid-century look that should fit in effortlessly with your sideboard and period seating. Made of oak and designed by Ehlén Johansson, it sells for £149.

Find out more at the Ikea website

Categories / Books, Design and Interiors

Vintage Penguin Spines notebook

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Everyone needs a notebook to record those moments of inspiration – and they don’t get more eye-catching than the Vintage Penguin Spines notebooks.

Take your pick from a large or small notebook, as well as a choice of blank or ruled paper, with the hard sleeve featuring the pick of classic Penguin paperbacks from their introduction back in 1935.

You can pick them up online, priced from £8.95.

Find out more at the Design Museum website

Categories / Food and Drink

Pop Art Marmite China

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The classic Marmite jar has been given a pop art makeover in this range of crockery.

Mugs, tins, plates, egg cups and an espresso set all feature the famous jar but in a bright pop art palette. The plates, with the jar peeking up from the edge, are especially cool, but perhaps that won’t be enough to convince anyone who hates the yeast spread.

Prices start at £8 for a mug or 20cm plate, going up to £35 for the espresso set. See the whole collection online at Gifts to Go.

Categories / Books, Kids

Classic 50s Book “The Lonely Doll”

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LonelydollbookOriginally published in 1957, "The Lonely Doll" is the first book by author and photographer Dare Wright and it became a cult classic.

It follows the adventures of a doll called Edith and her other toy friends, and illustrated with beautiful black & white photographs. The book has recently been re-issued so you don’t have scour secondhand bookstores for the original fifties version.

It is available to buy from Amazon, priced just under £10 for the hardback or less than £5 for the paperback.