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Five 1970s-style table lamps at La Redoute

Five 1970s-style table lamps at La Redoute

1970s-style wall murals by Bobbi Beck

1970s-style wall murals by Bobbi Beck

Lego goes pop art with Robert Indiana’s Love

Lego goes pop art with Robert Indiana’s Love

Categories / Men's Fashion

Retro Bow Ties from Forage

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If dapper dandy is your summer style of choice then look no further than one of these candy-coloured Bow Ties from Forage.

The ties are handcrafted in Philadelphia from vintage remnants and deadstock hunted out (hence the name Forage) by stitchers Shauna and Stephen. They come in an array of delightful colours and patterns that will add a stylish edge to summer suits. The bow ties need to be hand-tied, but that's an invaluable skill that no self-respecting dandy should be without.

The ties cost from $68 each and will be shipped to you in a hand-printed, vintage-style box packed with shredded paper.

Find out more online.

Categories / Homeware

Crown Vintage Paints

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With so many great wallpapers available, it would be tempting to paper every wall in the house, but to make it a bit easier on the eye, you may want to paint a few, which is where Crown’s new range Crown Vintage comes in.

Created in association with Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway, whose love of all things vintage is no secret, the range consists of 30 flat matt emulsions. The colours are inspired by music, fashion, film, art and design from the 1940s up to the 1980s, and have names such as Make Do and Mend, Mop Top Mania, Beat Generation Blue and Free Love.

You can read more about the range on the Crown Paints Blog or buy them exclusively at Homebase, priced £22.50 for a 2.5L tin.

Categories / Men's Fashion, Women's Fashion

Polaroid Best Under The Sun archive sunglasses collection

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Perhaps now known more for its cameras, Polaroid was once a prime mover in the sunglasses market, producing some iconic styles from the '60s onwards. Some of those are celebrated and reissued in the Polaroid Best Under The Sun archive collection, now available via the Design Museum.

Four styles are on offer, Memphis, Donna, Image (designed by Kenneth Grange) and Rebel. Memphis is the one above, worn by musicians and hipsters in the 1960s, reproduced in premium nickel silver and state of the art TR90 for the modern market. They retail for £69.

Also, check out over the page for the other styles, all taken from the 1970s and 1980s and priced between £69 and £85.

Find out more at the Design Museum Shop website

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Kids

Tattly: retro-inspired temporary tattoos

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Tattly is a new venture launched by the blogger Swissmiss offering temporary tattoos for design-minded kids and the young at heart. The range includes plenty of retro subject matter for offer – though not the traditional hearts or roses you might expect. 

She's worked with various different illustrators to produce the tattoos. Julia Rothman has supplied the digital watch design pictured, as well as a robot and a polaroid camera. Other designs include retro computer graphics and an old-fashioned microphone. 

$5 buys you a set of two of any design or you can buy all 15 designs for $35.

Buy them online

Categories / Design and Interiors

Newgate Marvel architectural clock

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This Marvel architectural clock is another retro design courtesy of Newgate.

It combines some of the design elements of a couple of other of their clocks that we've featured before. They've used those Peter Blake-esque numbers in their Carnaby wall clock previously, while those cut-out numbers – which you are able to place where you'd like, are similar to the idea in their postmaster architectural clock. Whatever the influences, combining the two produces an eye-catching piece of the time. 

The clock is currently reduced in the sale to £38.25.

Buy it from Barker and Stonehouse 

Categories / Film and TV

New trailer: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

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We have covered Tintin on here in the past, not least because we're big Tintin fans. We've also reviewed the old Tintin live action movies of the 1960s – Tintin and the Blue Oranges and Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece. So we're more then keen to see what The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn turns out like.

The movie is a big Hollywood affair, directed by Steven Spielberg no less, although we're more appreciative of the fact that Joe Cornish (of Adam and Joe) has a writing credit, so despite the big budget, we're hopeful it might well be a fitting tribute to the original comic strip.

Saying that, the real life-like animation might take some getting used to. Check out the trailer now below, with the big screen date set at October 26th 2011.