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10 of the best retro alarm clocks

10 of the best retro alarm clocks

Retro reading glasses by London Mole

Retro reading glasses by London Mole

10 of the best retro floor lamps on the high street

10 of the best retro floor lamps on the high street

Categories / Design and Interiors

Art Decor Designs – art deco-style soft furnishings

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A print designer for many years, Jean Enness has now followed her first love of art deco by starting up Art Decor Designs, with the first products now available to order.

Check out the website for art deco-inspired cushions and matching throws, with room screens and tablecloths to follow soon. Pictured above is the Sunray throw and a matching cushion – like all items in the range, featuring a completely unique design, silk screened onto a luxurious soft furnishing velvets.

Cushions are priced around the £75 – £79  mark, with throw above selling for £245.

See all the items at the Art Decor Designs website

Categories / Women's Fashion

Junya Watanabe paisley print dress

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It seems there’s a few fashion designers out there at the moment who are determined to make us all look as though we’d fit right in climbing over the fences at Woodstock. Of course, for retro devotees that’s a blessing.

This paisley dress from Junya Watanabe fits the bill, stepping away from the many 40s style floral dresses littered across the fashion stores at the moment. The print, length and floaty material and cut combine to make this a very convincing ode to late 60s/early 70s looks.

As with all high fashion, though, this one costs a packet at £725 from Browns. Back to the vintage shops for us mere mortals.

Find out more from the Browns website

Categories / Gadgets and Tech

Bird Electron offers retro-styled Ezison 0 portable speaker

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Remember the Bird Electron retro iPod mixer? Well, the company is back with something equally as cool – the retro-styled Ezison 0 portable speaker.

Available in red or white cloth finishes or metallic gold, white or purple, all have leather handles and hook to virtually any audio source – drawing power from that same source (so no batteries). No volume control either – just a ‘high’ or ‘low’ setting.

Sadly, this vintage-styled speaker is only available in Japan right now, where it sellf for the equivalent of around £35 – £38. But like the iPod mixer, it’s likely to be available to order worldwide eventually.

Bird Electron Shop (Japanese)

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Humax and ChauhanStudio show off 70s-style space age TV

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We recently got an invite to the official launch of the much-anticipated Colombo Phone from ChauhanStudio. Sadly, it’s in Milan, so we can’t make it. But we did also notice this 70s-style space age TV on the product listing – and very cool it is.

It’s also the work of ChauhanStudio, in association with TV retailer Humax. details are scarce apart from the above picture and that this is a ‘new TV concept for Humax Electronics’. Whether that means it will  go into production is anyone’s guess – we’ll know more in April.

And if it goes on sale…we want one!

ChauhanStudio website

Categories / Design and Interiors

The Midcentury Show at the De La Warr Pavilion

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A cool show at a super-cool venue – that’ll be The Midcentury Show at the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill On Sea, coming up on Sunday 18th May 2008.

The Midcentury Show showcases the latest finds from a selection of 35 to 40 dealers specialising in all aspects of mid-century design for the home – everything from ceramics, glass and fabrics through to larger furniture items.

And as a bonus, you’ll be wandering round the De La Warr Pavilion, designed by Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff in 1935, now a Grade One listed icon of the Modernist movement and a day trip destination in itself. The Midcentury Show runs from 11am until 4pm, with entry £5 for adults, free for accompanied children.

Find out more at the Midcentury Modern website