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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

Six of the best obscure retro trainers brands

Six of the best obscure retro trainers brands

Categories / Christmas

Jo-Jo the Dove Christmas Cards

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Messages of “Peace” and images of white doves are pretty commonplace on Christmas cards, but the “Jo-Jo the Dove” Christmas Cards have another meaning.

The design is taken from an anonymous political poster originally issued by the French anti-communist group Paix et Liberté in 1952. These cards have been designed exclusively for the V&A Shop and are sold in packs of 10 which also include a sheet of stickers for personalising your cards.

The cards cost £6.50 and can be ordered from the V&A Shop now.

Categories / Books, Food and Drink, Kids

The Nancy Drew Cookbook

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Several generations of young girls have grown up reading the Nancy Drew Mysteries, with the heroine first appearing in the 1930s and continuing to solve new cases to this day.

"The Nancy Drew Cook: Clues to Good Cooking" is very much the 1970s incarnation of Nancy Drew as it was originally published in 1973, but reissued in 2005. The easy-to-follow recipes tie in with the most famous of Miss Drew’s cases.

It is available from Amazon for less than £5.

Categories / Design and Interiors

Santa & Cole 1950s Digamma armchair

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I love the industrial looks of the Santa & Cole Digamma armchair.

Designed back in 1957 by Ignazio Gardella, it offers comfort via the upholstered seat, back and arms, mixed with that utilitarian steel frame and legs, not to mention the mechanical control for the three-position backrest.

If you like your style mixed with simplicity, it could be for you. The Digamma sells for around £3,500.

Find out more at the Nest website

Categories / Bags, Women's Fashion

Anya Hindmarch Disco Box Clutch

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Disco style isn’t something that’s often easy to carry off, especially for less casual occasions. Thankfully, the accessories wardrobe of the era is chock full with plenty of style for designers to plunder. This Anya Hindmarch Disco box bag is a perfect evening bag inspired by the most fabulous 70s trend.

The metallics avoid looking trashy through their muted colours and structured box construction. Added to the circular pattern, there’s something quintessentially Studio 54 about this piece.

It’s currently available from Net-a-Porter for £260.

Find out more from the website

Categories / Women's Fashion

Peplum skirts from ASOS

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The Peplum skirt is a piece of fashion history which just continues to recurr, though not rarely with the same flair as its reinvention in the 1940s. Inspired by ancient Grecian style, the fringed skirt’s unusual structure makes a real statement that just keeps coming back into style.

ASOS.com have jumped on the revival with a number of skirts, some clearly taking inspiration from a minor eighties invention of the classic. Whatever your favoured clothing decade, there’s one for almost everyone.

Find out more from the ASOS website

Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: 1960s André Bruyere-designed house in Bouches du Rhône, France

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The current credit crunch means there are less retro houses for sale in the UK – but there are still plenty elsehwere, if you have the money. Something you’ll need yo buy this André Bruyere-designed house in Saint Remy de Provence, Bouches du Rhône, France.

Bruyere designed this in 1968, based on traditional Mediterranean architecture, but throwing in some period 60s space age for an individual feel. Not that it needs much to stand out – the huge one-floor house is sat in one hectare of land, near to a nature reserve. Yes, we’re talking complete isolation, if that’s what you want and with a roof that doubles up as a patio, plenty of space to sit back and admire the landscape.

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