Design Shop UK have based their Barbie Chair on a 1960’s Arkana Chair that has not been in production for 25 years.
It can be made in colours of your choice although it probably looks best in the classic white, which best highlights its sleek finish.
The white version was apparently featured in this year’s Big Brother (I don’t know this firsthand, it says so on their website) but don’t let that put you off.
If the Teapot Toaster wasn’t your cup of tea, maybe you’ll be more impressed with the DeLonghi retro radio toaster.
As the name suggests, this will toast your bread (two slices at a time) with six browning settings and a removable crumb tray. And there’s an FM radio built in, with easy seek for searching out your stations, plus that retro exterior.
You can pick one up from Amazon, priced at £19.99.
Not as famous as his eponymous chair, the Amoebe Chair is another classic piece of furniture design from Verner Panton.
The Amoebe was created for the Visiona Expo, an exhibition for Bayer on board a boat, where Panton created landscapes of block colours. This chair can be used on its own or multiples can be lined up to form a sofa, giving flexible seating options.
Vitra has re-issued the Amoebe in a range of bright colours, as befits a design from the man who give his name to a colour system (Pantone). Several online shops are selling them, including Blend Design Store where they are £700 each.
Jenny Beardshall’s Standing Balloon Lights are very much a modern product – they are currently on show at Tent, part of the London Design Festival. But its mixture of space-age design (the balloon shade) and Victoriana (the ornate base) seems very much in keeping with a 1960’s aesthetic.
They are available with a range of coloured bases and shades, and in table lamp or floor lamp size. Prices start from £195.
Further details can be found on the Raw Studio website.
So sang John Lennon on Norwegian Wood. Could this have been the inspiration for Reestore on their latest product Max the bathtub chaise?
This chaise longue is (as you can probably tell from the photograph) a vintage roll top bath remodelled to form a chaise longue apparently like one featured in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Is this taking recycling a step too far or is it an innovative style statement? I haven’t quite made up my mind yet.
If you think you’d like one of these in your home, it costs £875 and be ordered from the Reestore website.
Here at Retro To Go, we like nothing better than a cup of tea and a slice of toast. And now we can have both – at once – with the Toaster Teapot.
Descriptions aren’t really necessary, it does what it says. That means toast to your required level of darkness and the ability to slip in some tea and hot water for your brew.
Add to that some retro styling, right down to the logo on the side, and you have a very useful thing of beauty for your £29.95.
Find out more at the Teapottery website
