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Crosley Classic Kitchen Phone

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The Crosley Classic Kitchen Phone is a tribute to the mid-century telephones designed by Henry Dreyfuss.

This wall-mounted phone was originally designed to allow consumers to walk with the phone while cradling it on their shoulder and Dreyfuss undertook an extensive survey of human faces to determine the average distance between the mouth and ear. The Crosley design has incorporated these ideas, but updated the phone with push buttons, redial function and pulse/tone modes.

The phone costs $54 from Urban Outfitters, although sadly it is can only be delivered within the USA.

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Hommu Vintage Phone Wall Sticker

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We’ve seen plenty of wall decals recently, but used in the right way, the Hommu Vintage Phone Wall Sticker is amongst the cleverest.

The black sticker is in the shape of a classic Bakelite 200 series telephone, and positioned next to a real telephone as shown in the photo here, can add a touch of humour to your home (but hopefully won’t prove to be too confusing!)

It costs 22 Euros and is available to buy directly from Hommu.

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Transparent 746 Telephone

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Pedlars have their autumn stock in now, which includes a supply of Transparent 746 Telephones.

They have the traditional 746 shape, but with a transparent casing so you can see what makes the phone work. They were originally used in telephone exchanges and there are now less than 100 in existence. They been reconditioned both inside and out and are fully compatible with modern BT systems or adapted at no extra cost for Telewest users.

The transparent 746 telephone costs £145 from Pedlars.

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Next classic telephone

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This telephone from Next is an update of a classic design. Based on the familiar 1960s BT phone, it's been remade in the colours of red, with a white dial detail and a red trim. It's not just the colour scheme that's been given a make-over either: it's actually a push button phone. Still they've retained some more familiar details, keeping the bell ring of the phone.

Next are also selling the same model in a black, red and cream colour combination. Both phones sell for £25.  

Buy it online

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iRetrofone Base – turn your iPhone into something vintage

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Yes, that is an iPhone in the picture, house in something called an iRetrofone Base, the work of Freeland Studios.

The iRetrofone Base is handmade, sculpted and casted one at a time from resin, which probably accounts for the waiting list for one – around two weeks before each is shipped. It is designed to be compatible with all iphones, offering you some good old-fashioned handset action in your home, rather than having to slap that touchscreen to your ear.

It can also charge and sync with a computer (if you throw a USB into the mix) and is available via the company’s Etsy site, priced at $195.

Find out more at the Freeland Studios at Etsy website

(via iPhone Savior)

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eBay watch: 1980s Bang and Olufsen Beocom 2000 telephone

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Here's a more modern item than we usually feature, but if you want something that screams the 1980s, this Bang and Olufsen Beocom 2000 telephone is it.

The phone was designed by Lone and Gideon Lindinger-Loewy in the 1980s, continuing in production until late in the 1990s – but the colourful colour scheme tells us this is an earlier model (the bright colours were killed off in the early 90s).

Functional as a modern home phone and known for its excellent sound quality, an early use of a digital display, number memory, pause function, built-in speaker – there's even a hidden note pad. It's on a 'Buy It Now' for £89.99 – or for the more frugal, a 'Make Offer' too.

Find out more at the eBay website