Categories / Women's Fashion

Bodyshaping Swimsuit from La Redoute

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The many dedicated fifties designers on the market have full on pin-up style swimwear all sewn up, but for those of us with less of a budget or less occasion to go all out there's fifties influenced styles to be found in some unusual places.

This Bodyshaping Swimsuit from La Redoute is a simple piece, but features plenty of vintage influence. The bodyshaping structure helps to create a great hourglass silhouette, a must for fifties beachwear looks. With a halter strap, sweetheart neckline and bow detailing at the bust, a simple onepiece is transformed into a cute retro item for regular wear.

It's available exclusively online from La Redoute for £45.

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Categories / Homeware

House Doctor DK Wooden Desk

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Following the Ethan School Desk for kids we featured earlier this week, now here is a stylish desk for grown-ups.

The House Doctor DK Wooden Desk is made of solid wood with three useful drawers. The drawers are each painted a different colour, adding to the midcentury look of the piece.

It costs £850 from Bodie and Fou. Order to today for delivery early in July.

Categories / Homeware

Lazy Bones Stool from SLIDE Designs

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The Lazy Bones Stool has been designed by English architect Barnaby Gunning for SLIDE Designs.

It is made from polyethylene in a choice of colours, including retro favourites white and orange and can be used indoors or out. But that’s not all – it can also have a light added to it, so it can double as lamp.

Prices start at £280 for the basic stool option. Contact Kalusto Furniture about adding the light.

Categories / Design and Interiors

David Mellor Pride cutlery in stainless steel

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We've featured the designs of David Mellor on this site before, an 'unsung hero of design in the UK'. Though he worked on many different designs throughout his career, he's best known for his work in metalwork, particularly cutlery. His first, and also one of his most famous designs, Pride, has now been issued for the first time in stainless steel. 

Pride was designed back in 1953, when Mellor was a student at the Royal College of Art. It's been in production since the Fifties too, however only in silver plate. It's now been produced in the moderately cheaper stainless steel – retaining the same modern shapes that won the cutlery a place in the Design Centre Awards back in 1957. 

Prices start at £7 for a teaspoon and go up to the thousands for some of the canteens. 

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Categories / Toys and Games

Block notes from Suck UK – Tetris style post-its

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Though they don't say it by name, it's easy to recognise what has inspired these Block notes from Suck UK: with their interlocking shapes, you can have hours of fun rearranging them as though you were playing a game of Tetris. 

Fun, certainly, but also possibly useful – the long strips can be used for marking pages, the square ones scribbling longer notes. In fact, with all the blocks together, you can over 100 sheets worth of sticky notes. The number of different arrangements that can be made using one pack of the note pads is less obvious…

A set of the notes costs £7.50.

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Categories / Women's Fashion

Pleated Goddess Dress by Halston Heritage

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Of the many legendary designers who defined the 1970s, it may just be the designs of Halston that most define the decade for many of us. Creating silhouettes, innovative fabric uses and a sense of high luxury that remains a signifier of the disco era, it can only be a welcome thing to have many of the designs back to buy thanks to Halston Heritage.

Delving into the Halston archives, they're bringing us designs inspired by the originals, but made from modern fabrics that allow for a perfected fit and feel. This Goddess Dress has a decadent Grecian feel, in a bronzed pleated fabric that flows with your walk.

It's available online in the UK from My Wardrobe for £472.

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