Category: Design and Interiors

Littlewoods isn’t the first place you would look for retro design, but the high street retailer is currently stocking a great example – this 70s-style Angel leisure chair.

This soft leather chair borrows a little from the Ligne Roset Togo seating (and not for the first time on the high street), but adds a chrome swivel base and a good choice of colour. Note that the back of the seat is faux leather, with the rest being real leather.

Which has probably helped to keep the cost down a little – it retails for £269.

Find out more at the Littlewoods website

Nothing is quite ‘of an era’ like a hot water bottle. But even in these days of central heating, you can’t beat one on a cold night. And we rather like these retro-styled Chocolate Hotties.

Inside is your average rubber hot water bottle, but the outside is the real eye-catcher, with a retro-styled knitted cover and animal detailing. Just like something your gran might have made in fact.

But rather than bother her, you can go and buy one – £14.99 each.

Find out more at the Totally Funky website

It might look very modern, but this Arne Jacobsen 3300 easy chair is 50 years old this year – and it’s still in production, courtesy of Fritz Hansen.

The chair was designed by Jacobsen with a specific purpose – for the guests of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen to kick back in and relax. You can still do this in your own home in a chair designed around a chromed steel chair, with cold-cured foam sat on a wooden frame for the actual seat.

Prices vary, starting at £2,022, moving up if you want a leather finish or a sofa version.

Find out more at the Skandium website