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Pro-Ject unveils Charlie Brown-themed Peanuts T1 BT turntable

Pro-Ject unveils Charlie Brown-themed Peanuts T1 BT turntable

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

The Domino Dress by Bettie Page Clothing

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Pin-up girl styles often make people think of bared flesh and risqué cuts of clothing, but Bettie Page Clothing's best designs are far from revealing. This new Domino Dress is a perfect example of their flair for fifties sex appeal, without giving anything away.

The dress hugs the figure perfectly with four way stretch fabric, giving that unmistakeably fifties wiggle shape instantly. The design, however, is far from the usual featuring a striking use of black and white to create curves along the body. The collar's white border gives the impression of a portrait-jacket shape, with a cutesey domino spot design on the cuff.

It's available now from Bettie Page Clothing from $130.

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Categories / Homeware, Music

Cassette wall sticker from Ferm Living

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We've featured countless products based on cassettes and countless more wall stickers, so it was only natural that the two should combine at some point. And, lo and behold, the cassette wall sticker from Ferm Living. 

It's black and it's big, measuring 100 x 50cm. It's also quite expensive for what it is at £61.30. But there's surely no better way to illustrate your devotion to tape technology. 

Buy it from Stylish Life

Categories / Design and Interiors, Women's Fashion

Tiny Little Chairs: metal pendants featuring mid-century chair designs

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How much do you like your classic chair designs? So much so that you'd be willing to wear them as jewellery? Well, that choice can be yours now with the Tiny Little Chairs pendants from Bruxe Design. 

The necklaces are indeed both tiny, measuring 2 x 2cm each, and featuring chairs. Five chair icons in fact, all lovingly handmade on a miniature scale. There's the Pavilion pendant, which is basically Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and then the Dining pendant, a mini version of Eero Saarinen's Tulip chair. The Eames' are well represented with the Scoop, Work and Bent pendant all being modelled on their designs. 

Prices range from the seemingly affordable Bronze version of the Dining chair which retails for Canadian $140 (just over £80), to the out of my league Canadian $2500 for a gold Pavilion pendant. However, with that working out at just under £1500, that's still cheaper than the chair that inspired it.

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Categories / Gadgets and Tech

Brionvega 1960s-designed rr227 MP3 radio now available in the UK

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Ok, you got us – the MP3 format wasn't around in the 1960s. But the Brionvega rr227 radio was – and it's now available in the UK.

We first saw this back in late 2008, a 1965 design from the hands of Zanuso and Sapper, produced to work either horizontally or vertically for your AM/FM listening pleasure.

But the new version adds something new – an MP3 player, which you can feed via miniSD card or USB, playing back MP3 or WMA digital music files. Available in red, white or black, you can finally pick it up instore or online for £185.

Find out more at the Chaplins website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Branex reissues the 1960s Quasar inflatable lamp

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Back in 2008, Branex brought back the Quasar line of 1960s inflatable furniture. Now, in 2010, it's gone a stap further – reissuing the Quasar inflatable lamp.

Designed by the wonderfully-named Quasar Khanh back in 1969, taking the inflatable concept to an unlikely extreme. In 2010, it's something of an icon of that adsventurous era and a useful one too – it might be light, but that PVC is super-tough, three times as thick as the PVC usually used to manufacture inflatable furniture.

It's also a certain conversation starter as well as the perfect ceiling adornment, should you be going for that space age look. Various colours available (you can see another over the page), all priced at just over £58.

Find out more at the Made in Design website

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Categories / Film and TV

Network launches the Look Back on 70s Telly DVD range

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Feeling nostalgic for kids TV of the 1970s? Network feels your pain, bringing out the intriguing Look Back on 70s Telly DVD range.

Two sets initially in the range – volume one covering the lunchtime slot, volume two taking on the back from school selection. That means the likes of Rainbow, Pipkins, Hickory House, Mr. Trimble, Cloppa Castle, Gideon, Tingha and Tucker, Mumfie, The Magic Ball and Animal Kwackers on the first disc, Follyfoot, Black Beauty, Pauline’s Quirkes, Roberts Robots, Timeslip, Nobody’s House and Magpie on the second. Both of the two-disc sets also come with their own comic too.

Check out over the page for the full breakdowns of contents, with both sets selling for around £10 when they land in February.

Find out more at the Amazon website

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