We featured the Orla Kiely Lusk armchair some time back, but I think I prefer the Orla Kiely Cork easy chair.
A classic mid-century look, the Cork is available in plain (as above) or with an Orla Kiely fabric print, should you be feeling a little more bold. And the low-slung chair itself has a beech frame, with walnut stain finish.
Available online, prices start at just under £1,000.
Find out more at the Heals website
Mini dresses and winter are hardly two things which seem to go hand in hand, but finding a year round 60s style is a great investment. This T-Bags silk jersey mini is a perfect candidate thanks to its longer sleeves and colour palette.
The geometric pattern is an effective ode to 1960s high fashion, and the muted colours give a sense of a late sixties/early seventies mood. This one will easily be pared with some tights to make it wearable right now, too.
It’s available online from Net-a-Porter for £165.
Umpen Editions produce several lines of retro influenced greetings cards, but the one that I’m most taken with is the “Stuffed with Love” range of cards.
Inspired by the craft and homemade trends of the 1960s and 1970s (which are enjoying a revival now), the cards feature adorable toy animals made from patterned vintage fabrics with a background of yet more vintage fabric.
Pictured here are Egg the Owl and Aslan, but the whole range can be seen on the Umpen Editions website. The cards are carried by the usual cool independent shops, and a full list of stockists can also be found on the website. Lady Luck Rules Ok has some of the Stuffed with Love cards to buy online for £2.20 each.
Designer Giles Miller is best known for his furniture made from cardboard, but he has left this obsession briefly behind to make the rather patriotic Queen’s Head Mirror.
The cut-out mirror is in the shape of Queen Elizabeth’s profile in her younger days, as it used to appear on stamps and coins. The mirror is given a nice finishing touch of a three dimensional chain of pearls around her neck.
It is available in three sizes with prices ranging from £20 to £30. Visit the Farm Designs website to order.
A modern design, but with a look that’s firmly rooted in the 1960s – the BoConcept Veneto armchair.
Very space age in style, the chair is perfect as a reading chair or lounger and it’s also good to go in just about any room – you can choose your fabric colour, go for leather and choose from two different styles of aluminium ‘feet’.
The only downside is ordering – BoConcept doesn’t do online shopping, so you’ll have to find a local store. If you do, the Veneto is priced from £689.
Sunspel has been making men’s clothing for almost 150 years – but has never had its own retail store. Until now that is. The high-end label has just opened a one-off Christmas store in Central Arcade, Covent Garden Market, London.
If you can’t browse that store, you can buy online – with items including the Sunspel 1950s-style James Bond 007 polo shirt. The short was worn by Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, but is actually based on a 1950s top designed for the Italian Riviera – made of a unique Sunspel cotton-based fabric, with a slim/vintage fit and single breast pocket.
It’s what the fashion magazines might describe as a ‘wardrobe essential’. And you can pick one up for £59.50. Actually, it sells for a bit less – quote ‘shop123’ at checkout and get another 10 per cent off.
Find out more at the Sunspel website
