If you avoid the Dansettes, you can get some really good value vintage record players on eBay, with a growing number sold fully restored – this 1950s Bush SRP31 record player being one of them.
Tag: 1950s
Daphne Padden designs on tea towels at To Dry For
Graphic designer Daphne Padden is best known for her work for London Transport (indeed that's how her name has cropped up on this site before). To Dry For have had the great idea of using some of her designs on their tea towels.
These tea towels are adapted from some of Padden's paper-cut collages and they look like they date from the 1950s and 60s. Pictured is 'Kitchen Baking', pretty self explanatory with its colourful image of scales, kitchen implements and impressive looking cakes. There are three further designs to pick from covering subject matter as diverse as gardening, London and chickens and meaning there should be something for every taste.
The tea towels cost £11.95 each.
Little Visitor lampshade by Helen Dardik
The simple paper shade gets a retro makeover by Helen Dardik. The result? This charming Little Visitor lampshade.
eBay watch: 1950s children’s Lloyd Loom saucer chair
I wasn't sure whether to drop this here or on our Junior Hipster site. But as it is an eBay find (and we don't have a section on JH for those as yet), I think I'll flag up this 1950s children's Lloyd Loom saucer chair right here.
1950s-style circular coffee table from Out There Interiors
It was only yesterday we featured a midcentury-style coffee table. But if you want something a more more unusual that still looks like it comes from that period, how about this circular coffee table from Out There Interiors?
Fausto Coppi Cycling Screen Print from Shelf
Whether you're a fan of the Italian cycling legend or not, this Fausto Coppi Cycling Screen Print has an appeal that extends well beyond the cycling enthusiast thanks to it's witty quote.
