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Categories / Design and Interiors

Dwell’s Cross Base swivelling armchair

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I like Dwell – because they offer some really good design (including some nice retro-styled items) at reasonable prices. And one such item that’s new to the range is this Cross Base swivelling armchair.

Obviously taking some inspiration from the Verner Panton Cone Chair, but at a fraction of the price of one, it has a solid wood frame, brushed steel legs and a mixed fibre covering in a grey/brown.

Comfortable and stylish, the chair is available later this month, priced at £275.

Find out more at the Dwell website

Categories / Gadgets and Tech

JBL Spot space age speakers

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Just because your computer looks dull, that doesn’t mean your desk has to. And it should look a lot brighter with these JBL Spot space age speakers.

It’s a 2.1 speaker system for PC or Mac, available in white, but with interchangeable covers if you get bored of that. Total output is about 40w from the subwoofer and two speakers and there’s touch control for volume plus connectivity to use it with other devices and MP3 players.

Available online, you can pick it up for around £69.

Find out more at the Amazon website

Categories / Women's Fashion

Franco Sarto 60s-style Fresca shoes

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Mod-friendly footwear anyone? You don’t get much more 60s in look than these Franco Sarto 60s-style Fresca shoes.

In a period-friendly black and white colour scheme, the Fresca features  a high-shine tumbled patent leather, metal buckle and a two-inch heel.

As far as we can see, they’re not available in the UK (unless you know better), but in the US, you can pick up a pair for $89.95 (around £45).

Find out more at the Nordstrom website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Film and TV

Audrey Hepburn greetings cards

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Cheap, cheerful and pretty cool – these Audrey Hepburn greetings cards.

Five in a set, each featuring a different image of the screen legend and complete with envelopes. The cards measure 5.75 inches x 4.5 inches and have no message inside – so you just add your own.

Available from the Monkey Do Collective, a pack retails for $8 (around £4).

Find out more at the Monkey Do Collective website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Milkii – the double-spouted milk bottle jug

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Few of us still get our milk delivered in traditional bottles, but you can store yours in one with a twist – the Milkii.

Not quite the traditional bottle, this design by Kathleen Hills is a bone china container with two spouts, both of which can be resealed with the included foil tops of various colours or red plastic lids. Capacity, as you would expect, is a pint.

Available in traditional white or with a black glaze finish, you can pick one up from the newly-launched Ochigo online store for £24.95.

Find out more at the Ochigo website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Hoon ghetto blaster and record deck street jewellery

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Got more money than taste and want to show it off? You need to get yourself some Hoon street jewellery.

Hoon is actually an offshoot of long-established and highly-regarded jeweller Arthus-Bertrand, trying its hand at bling with items as diverse as trains, gun chambers, the DJ deck above and the ghetto blaster below. Both are made of silver, covered with a gold layer and with an 80cm chain.

And if you want to purchase, you can pick up the deck at around £182 and the ghetto blaster for around £219.

Find out more at the Caliroots website

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