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Categories / Art and Photography, Gadgets and Tech

Fuji limited edition Instax Mini 7S camera – the Polaroid returns

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Well, Polaroid has departed the instant photography market, but that’s not the end of the technology – Fuji is taking over where Polaroid left off with the Fuji Instax Mini 7S camera, also known as the Cheki 7.

These super-cool limited edition cameras use Fuji Instax film to produce shots sized around 54 x 86mm (the actual photo sized at 46 x 62mm). No tweaking of your shots, no printing and immediate memories. The camera isn’t bad either, packing an automatic built-in flash, simple exposure control, infinity focusing and a high quality Fujinon lens.

Take your pick from brown and white, with prices starting at around £63 from the Lomography shop.

Find out more at the Lomography website

Categories / Art and Photography

James Brown retro-styled artwork at General Pattern

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No, not the sadly-missed singer, this James Brown is a London-based illustrator – and his retro-styled artwork is available to buy on the General Pattern website.

Check out all the prints on the site, but we like the two above, Voodoo and Bags. The first is a two colour screenprint on zerkall printing soft white paper sized at 38.5 x 53 cm, which you can buy for £40.

The second print is a one colour Linocut on off-white sugar paper, sized at 40 x 50cm. You can pick that one up for £20.

Find out more at the General Pattern website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Ikea Stockholm mid-century style console table

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Officially described as a ‘sofa bench’, we prefer to call it the Ikea Stockholm console table.

The idea of a sofa bench is for extra storage behind your sofa, but in its more traditional role, this console table offers slimline storage for a hallway or indeed any narrow room on its two shelves.

And being part of the Stockholm range, it offers a 50s-style mid-century look that should fit in effortlessly with your sideboard and period seating. Made of oak and designed by Ehlén Johansson, it sells for £149.

Find out more at the Ikea website

Categories / Books, Design and Interiors

Vintage Penguin Spines notebook

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Everyone needs a notebook to record those moments of inspiration – and they don’t get more eye-catching than the Vintage Penguin Spines notebooks.

Take your pick from a large or small notebook, as well as a choice of blank or ruled paper, with the hard sleeve featuring the pick of classic Penguin paperbacks from their introduction back in 1935.

You can pick them up online, priced from £8.95.

Find out more at the Design Museum website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Heals Hidde 60s-style leather armchair

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Not a period piece, the Hidde leather armchair from Heals is a modern design with one eye fixed on the past.

To us, that past is the late 1960s, this Gerard van de Berg-designed chair offering up an egg-like shape that’s perfect for an old-style Bond Villain and a luxury soft full aniline leather that’s ideal for anyone who just wants to sink into a luxurious seat after a tough day at work.

The eat is exclusive to Heals and available in a variety of leather finishes, all for around £2,295.

Find out more at the Heals website

Categories / Men's Fashion, Sportswear

Adidas Beckenbauer Allround trainers reissued

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Not sure what’s going on with Adidas right now, but it seems to be reissuing trainers faster than we can write about them – the latest being the Adidas Beckenbauer Allround trainers.

Back in 1982, the footie legend would have been in the twilight of his footballing career (at Hamburg, then onto a final fling at the New York Cosmos), but was still a name to stick on the side of a shoe. This particular trainer was designed for both a kickabout in the school yard or on an all-weather pitch, but still had enough about it to pair up with a pair of jeans.

The reissue offers a plush leather upper bold orange stripes and a ‘high impact’ training insole, should you want to show off your skills. Pre-order now for £55.

Find out more at the End Clothing website