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Keith Haring Dancing Figures Lego set

Keith Haring Dancing Figures Lego set

Five 1970s-style table lamps at La Redoute

Five 1970s-style table lamps at La Redoute

Categories / Women's Fashion

Silk-Satin V-Neck Gown from Halston Heritage

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The Halston brand is one of few that has been awarded a firm place in the history of American fashion, making its name in the 1970s for its glamour and luxury. With fans like Bianca Jagger and Anjelica Huston in its infancy, there's plenty of reasons for retro lovers to take inspiration from their designs.

The design house has made it easy to copy the style with their Heritage line, taking original pieces and giving them a modern remake. This Silk-Satin V-Neck Gown retains all of the 1970s chic that made the brand famous, with luxurious fabrics and a flowing cut that would fit right into Studio 54's heyday.

It's available online from Net-a-Porter now for £525.

Find out more from the website

Categories / Bags

Adidas Originals Adicolor retro-styled holdall

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Possibly something of a throwback to your schooldays with the Adidas Originals Adicolor holdall.

Yes, a big chunky holdall, the kind of thing that was popular on the schoolyard in the 80s and stays useful today for anything from the gym to a night away with that hefty capacity. That white on black colour scheme is particularly stylish (especially with the Adidas and Trefoil detailing), while the polyurethane construction should make it useful in all weather.

£55 will secure you one. Another angled image is over the page.

Find out more at the Hip Leeds website

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Categories / Cars and Bikes, Homeware, Toys and Games

Retro childhood poem tea towel

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If your childhood memories date to slightly further back than the characters featured in the Saturday Mornings in the 80s paper cut, this retro childhood poem tea towel may be more to your taste.

Drawing on memories of the 1970s, it shows a poem which waxes lyrical about some of the childhood delights from that decade: pogo sticks and space hoppers, black jacks and fruit salad sweets, the Beano and Jackie magazines and so on. The nostalgia fest is topped off with an image of the 70s favourite bike – the chopper.

This trip down memory lane costs just £6. 

Buy it from Rockett St George

Categories / Art and Photography, Film and TV, Kids

Saturday Mornings in the 80s paper cut

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Most paper cuts seem to focus on folk and whimsical imagery so this piece, titled Saturday Mornings in the 80s, makes a nice change. Full of weird and wonderful shapes, look at bit closer and you realise its made of the silhouettes of some of the Eighties best known TV characters ranging from He-Man and She-Ra to Postman Pat and Rainbow Brite.

The piece is limited to twenty and is made by laser cutting, based on a hand-drawing. It's the work of London based company Cut Out Paper who also sell a cut based on classic twentieth-century chairs, should your taste be slightly less nostalgic. 

It sells for £75 unframed or £130 framed. You can contact them to order through their website or go through their Etsy store.

Categories / Design and Interiors

Piet Hein 1930s Ra pendant lamp

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A modernist classic that's almost 80 years old, yet the Piet Hein Ra pendant lamp still has some cutting edge looks.

One of Hein's first designs, it was initiated back in 1931 and still exudes that modernist charm. Indeed, this reissue is based on those original drawings, but in new materials and new, bolder colours like the red above. Clever too – with the bulb actually covered, it doesn't glare, rather it 'illuminates' the room with a warm glow.

If you want to brighten up your living room for one, the Ra pendant lamp sells for £529.

Find out more at the Panik Design website

Categories / Art and Photography

Shag’s latest print – The Relentless Party

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The prolific Shag has yet another work on the market as a limited editon, going by the name of The Relentless Party.

It's the companion piece to Secret Cul-De-Sac, which was produced in limited numbers last year. This 60s-inspired party piece is also a limited edition of 150, as well as being a 22-colour serigraph that's sized at 22 x 54 inches, signed and numbered by the artist.

The price is $400, while stocks last. Which usually isn't long.

Find out more at the Shagmart website

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