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70s-style James watch collection by 666 Barcelona

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A new company to me, but the James watch collection by 666 Barcelona has something of a familiar look.

Indeed, they're not a million miles away from the classic 1970s Lip watches we have featured in the past, but with more of a contemporary twist thrown in for the LED display.

Take your pick from a mix of metal and metal/rubbrer for the finish, the former in a choice of a metallic silver or gold, prices varying depending on where you buy. Watchismo sells the watches from $149, while the company sells to Europe direct, with prices starting at 116 Euros.

Find out more at the 666 Barcelona website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Tesco does a budget Pumpkin-style chair

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Sphere

We love the Pumpkin chair. An early 70s design classic from Pierre Paulin and originally produced for Georges Pompidou's private apartment in the Élysée Palace, this space age gem went into mass production for the very first time in 2008, appearing most recently as an annviversary edition. But with prices starting at a very minimum £900 (and usually much more), it's not cheap. So here's an alternative – the Tesco Sphere chair.

Ok, it doesn't have the finesse of the Paulin original, it just wouldn't. But it does offer up a similar profile, with a circular shape, slightly raised back and a choice of fabric or leather construction. The fabric is in red, the leather in black.

If you are trying to re-create that 70s space age look, the Sphere chair offers the shape and the style without the big price tag. How cheap? Well, the fabric chair is yours online for £144.99, the leather discounted for £129.99. Even better, Tesco has discount code on its site right now that knocks another £10 off both prices.

Find out more at the Tesco Direct website

Categories / Design and Interiors

70s-style Sculptural side table at Dwell

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If you are working on a space age look for your home, this Sculptural side table at Dwell could fit the buill perfectly.

Available in black or the white pictured above, it offers up a quirky, jigsaw-like shape for unique storage, along with an eye-catching gloss lacquer finish. Ideal for using by a chair or indeed, buy the bed.

Standing around 50cm tall, it's on pre-order right now, priced at £129.

Find out more at the Dwell website

Categories / Books, Design and Interiors

Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design by Charlotte and Peter Fiell

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If you are interested in the history of plastic design, you'll want to pick up a copy of the newly-published Plastic Dreams: Synthetic Visions in Design by Charlotte and Peter Fiell.

From the creators of the excellent Scandinavian Design, Plastic Dreams celebrates plastic as a material, showing some of its finest works – from Bakelite in the 1920s to the icons of the modern era.

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Categories / eBay watch

eBay watch: 1970s eyeball-style ceiling light and wall lights

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If the colour doesn't convince you, the design is almost certainly a giveaway of the origins of this 1970s eyeball-style ceiling light and wall lights.

Yes, that's right, not just the light above, some wall lights thrown it too. But let's look at the main fitting first. That being a distinctive thing with chrome ceiling rose, orange 'stem' and three eyeball-style spotlights for targeting light around the room.

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eBay watch: 1970s Jerger space age alarm clock

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Jerger

As regular readers might have noticed, we're rather taken with vintage alarm clocks, especially big and bold designs from the 1970s. Like this Jerger alarm clock for example.

German-made and of course, dating back to the 70s, the clock is in full working order (so good for getitng you out of your bed), with the maker's name displayed clearly in the middle of those stylised 70s numbers, just above the chunky hands.

The colour scheme os a very 'of the era' orange and black and the price right now is just 99 pence. A bargain.

Find out more at the eBay website