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Five of the best vintage Adidas trainers reissues

Five of the best vintage Adidas trainers reissues

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

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

Retro Cassette Table by RJ Wood Projects

Retro Cassette Table by RJ Wood Projects

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Dualit’s retro-styled Espressivo coffee machine

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Dualit has made its mark with retro-styled toasters and radios, but now it’s moved into the coffee market, specifically with the Dualit Espressivo coffee machine.

Available in a chrome or cream finish, its retro looks are matched with a hefty bunch of features for making everything from a strong espresso to a creamy latte, including a self-priming 15 bar pump, super-fast start (ready to go in 40 seconds), instant hot water and constant steam, froth nozzle, cup warming plate, a 1.5-litre tank and enough room for a cup or a mug.

Yours for around £150.

Find out more at the Dualit website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Santa & Cole 1970s Steen hanging light

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Looking for a weird and wonderful space age light for your living room? The Santa & Cole Steen hanging light could be for you.

Designed back in 1972 by Steen Jorgensen, it’s described as a ‘system of concentric discs’, which diffuse the light, offering up more brightness for larger spaces. Four white metallic plates in total, with a brass-like stem and circular ceiling rose.

Now reissued, it sells for £857.

Find out more at the Nest website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Cassina Ombra 1950s lounge chair

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Can you believe the futuristic Cassina Ombra lounge chair is over 50 years old?

Indeed it is, designed back in 1953 in Tokyo by Charlotte Perriand for her husband’s house. It’s an easy chair, with a choice of polished chrome plate or painted black steel frame/legs, supporting polyurethane/polyester cushions within removable covers.

Simple, stylish and still ahead of its time – you can grab one in black or white for around £2,400.

Find out more at the Nest website

Categories / Retro Women's Fashion

French & English Confectioner’s Handmade Shoes

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French and English Confectioner’s is a couture shoe shop that takes all its design inspiration from eras in popular culture. While that may sound a little contrived, upon sight you can see that shoes are much more than just functional and pretty.

Each retro pair is handmade in a limited run of up to just 20 pairs, meaning you’ll be almost guaranteed never to step out in the same pair as anyone else in a room. Each pair is made in a secret London workshop too, adding a quirky mystique to shoes that will never appear ordinary.

Find out more from the website

Categories / Gadgets and Tech

Miniature Replica Diner Jukebox

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The CD Diner 2 is a miniature replica jukebox in the style found in 1950s diners.

It features a front-loading “in view” single CD player along with an MW/FM radio. Admittedly in these days of MP3 players and digital radios, it isn’t the most technologically advanced, but its charm is in recreating that Fifties diner style. As with the models it is replicating, it can sit table top or be wall mounted.

It costs £157 and can be bought online from Liberty Games.

Categories / Homeware

Orla Kiely for Heal’s Storage Range

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We’ve already featured a couple of items from Orla Kiely’s furniture range for Heal’s, and whilst the furniture pieces are truly beautiful, they certainly come under the “big purchase” category. Fortunately, the furniture collection has now been joined by the Orla Kiely for Heal’s Storage Range, which contains items that we can all afford to buy.

Consisting of magazine boxes, CD boxes, box files and various sized storage boxes, the collection features two of Kiely’s prints. The Tulip print is a bold retro pattern in olive colours whereas the Rowan Tree is a more understated, resembling flock wallpaper in purple shades.

Prices range from £22 to £40. Visit the Heal’s website to view the whole collection.