Category: Design and Interiors

Categories / Design and Interiors

RSVP the retro way with Imperial Telegrams

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Telegram

It's pretty easy to get a message to someone in the 21st century, be it by text, email or Facebook. For a more unusual way to send a greeting, take a look at Imperial Telegrams.

Pay £10 and you can send something like the above. Deliberately designed to represent old telegrams, your message is typed on a 1940s typewriter before the card is decorated with vintage stamps and date stamped. The card is then put in its own special envelope and then in a general envelope and before it is finally dispatched through Royal Mail. 

It's certainly an attractive and unusual way to send a special message. One small negative though: you are limited in the number of characters your message can contain. Though maybe in these days of Twitter that's not so much of a problem!

Find out more online

via Domestic Sluttery

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

James Provost mid-century designs poster

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Provost mid-century

Illustrating some of the best known and best loved pieces of modern furniture isn't a new idea but usually is a pretty attractive one. Step forward then James Provost with his take on mid-century design icons. 

It features all the usual suspects, from the Eames' lounger to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair. The print's limited colour scheme and the minimal depiction of each object makes it look extra appealing. 

It's available as a giclee print in various sizes starting at $14.24 for a 'petite' print and going up to $76.49 for the 'massive' version. 

Buy it from Imagekind

Categories / Design and Interiors, Toys and Games

Revolution Iqube

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Revolution Iqube

Looking for a stocking filler for the revolutionary in your life? How about keeping them quiet for a couple of hours with the Revolution Iqube game?

The game is made from four perspex cubes covered with a retro Chinese propaganda poster. The aim is to have all cubes side-by-side, showing the same image on each cube on all four of the long four sides. It's a good job that the poster used is pretty striking as, with apparently 40,000 different combinations and only one solution, you'll likely be looking at them for a fairly long time. 

For £10 it certainly makes a change from the challenges of the Rubik's cube. 

Buy it from Cox and Cox

Categories / Bags, Design and Interiors

BUILT bags featuring Alexander Girard designs

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Some of Alexander Girard's best known designs are getting another outing on these bags from New York company BUILT. They're reproducing three of his classic mid-century designs on a range that encompasses everything from phone sleeves to shoulder bags. 

Slightly controversially for a designer who was well known for his textile designs, these bags are made from neoprene. Their shapes reflects the rest of BUILT's bag range and which is likely not to everyone's taste. However, a nice detail is the charm that comes on all the bags – a mini version of Girard's 'Love' design. 

Prices start at $25 for the phone sleeve. 

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Aimee Wilder Analog Nights screenprints and cushions

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At the start of this year, we featured the Aimee Wilder Analog Nights retro wallpaper, a collage of all that is great and good in vintage audio. The downside? Well, at around £110 a roll, it was a little rich for many of us. Well, now there's a way to get the look for less of your cash – the Aimee Wilder Analog Nights screenprints and cushions.

Yes, that same eye-catching retro design is now available as a limited edition screenprint, 25 prints available for each colourway, all sized at 18 x 18inches, centered on 22 x 26-inch archival eco-friendly paper. Yours for $45.

See over the page for an image of the cushion, which is available with or without piping detail, sized at 16 inches square and hand screenprinted in a variety of colours. Complete with fill, it sells for $50.

Aimee Wilder website

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Film and TV, Women's Fashion

Beyond Biba movie now available to order as limited edition DVD

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We covered Beyond Biba some time back (June to be precise), when it got a premiere at London's V&A. Well, just in time for Christmas, the movie has been issued on DVD – in limited numbers.

For the uninitiated, Beyond Biba focuses on founder Barbara Hulanicki, looking at both the past and present, from the heady days of Biba and its influence in the years since, plus a look at Barbara herself and how she has kept on going forward, particularly in the world of interior design, rather than simply living off past history. The DVD release is limited to 1000 and the first 500 will include a certificate of authenticity signed by Barbara Hulanicki.

Each DVD will also contain a booklet about the film and four postcards, with the disc packing extras including a commentary with Director Louis Price and Producers Tom Walters and James Collie, an interview with Director Louis Price, a Stills Gallery, deleted scenes and a Barbara Hulanicki 'On Tour' documentary. It retails for £25 from the movie's website.

Beyond Biba website