Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Heals sale starts – up to 50 per cent off

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We love a sale, especially when the retailer has some tasty retro items in it. Like the Heals sale.

Actually it's called the 'Spring Home Event', but it's much the same, with up to 50 per cent off its range. To be honest, we haven't found much to get our pulses racing with the full discount, but there is a good selection of items marked down, from retro-style Newgate clocks to larger items like the Mistral sofa and armchair range (pictured above).

We have featured these midcentury-inspired gems previously and if you like those 50s-style looks, they're now available with a price cut – the armchiars at £876 (from £1,095), the sofas at £1,436 (from £1,795). Check those out and all the other sale items online now.

Sale at the Heals website

Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: Midcentury-inspired Ellis-Miller House in Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire

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An interesting house designed by an architect for his own use – and inspired by giants of days gone by – the Ellis-Miller House in Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire.

Designed by Jonathan Ellis-Miller in the late 80s and inspired by the likes of Mies Van Der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames and Craig Ellwood, this single-storey house is an award-winning design, but doesn't come with a restrictive price tag.

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Categories / Cars and Bikes, Film and TV

Ferris Bueller Ferrari up for auction at Bonhams

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No, it didn't actually slip off a sharp cliff near Cameron's modernist house – the Ferrari that featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off survived and is now up for auction at Bonhams.

It's a Ferrari 250GT Spyder California, but not a real one – only 100 of the original were made between 1958 and 1963, making it super-rare, so John Hughes and Paramount actually had a replica made for filiming. Which is the one being sold off now. Just think, you too could be careering around the city in that same car – but you'll not have to worry about the mileage or your parents.

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Categories / Architecture

For sale: 1960s architect-designed house in Ansty, Dorset

For sale: 1960s architect-designed house in Ansty, Dorset
For sale: 1960s architect-designed house in Ansty, Dorset

A lovely location and a lovely property too. This 1960s architect-designed house in Ansty, Dorset is on the market. Read more