Categories / Design and Interiors

Braun AB5 alarm clock by Dietrich Lubs

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The last of the classic Braun designs have now ceased production, with the final pieces now starting to leave the shelves. We have featured the ABW31 clock and the AB1 clock in the past, but one other design is also still available via the Design Museum Shop – the Braun AB5 alarm clock by Dietrich Lubs.

It's a great piece of modernist-inspired design, dating back to 1987 and complete with luminous hands, a sweeping second hand, quartz movement, pivoting alarm switch and a clear intermittent alarm.

Good for the bedside or the office desk, one can be yours for £29.95.

Find out more at the Design Museum Shop website

Categories / Retro Women's Fashion

Boden 1960s-style Patent Jacket

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It's a modern design,but the Boden Patent Jacket looks every bit the 1960s classic.

Described as a jacket that 'sums up the optimism and excitement of the Swinging Sixties', it's available in three colour options (you can see the green over the page), each with that large collar, three large matching buttons, spotted lining and a fully waterproof exterior.

Available in sizes 8 to 20, it's yours for £79.

Find out more at the Boden website

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Categories / Design and Interiors

Ingo Maurer Campari suspension light by Raffaele Celentano

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Looking for a quirky light fitting with a retro twist? Check out the Ingo Maurer Campari suspension light by Raffaele Celentano.

Those aren't your average bottles, they are Campari soda bottles, designed in 1932 by Italian Futurist artist Depero. That's something to impress the neighbours with. All 10 are arranged to work as a pendant, each individually detachable (in case you get thirsty) and supported with a lengthy cable that also features a Campari bottle top.

£270 will secure you one for your home.

Find out more at the Nest website

Categories / Homeware, Kids

Bror Sideboard for Children

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I will confess to being more than slightly obsessed with sideboards. I love their practicality and that they invariable look as if they belong to one retro decade or another. So I’m delighted to have come across a new variation on the sideboard in the Bror – a sideboard for children.

Designed by Catharina Engelholm for Heirloom, who specialise in creating stylish furniture for children that would make adults envious. The Bror looks just like a typical mid-century piece, with a combination of drawers and sliding doors, and available in walnut, but it is in miniature, standing at just over 15 inches high.

The Bror costs 910 Euros (around £850) and can be ordered online from Swedish website Pid.

Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: Art deco Greenridges house in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire

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A special house that needs a special amount of money to secure it – Greenridges in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.

Originally built as a wedding present from a Lancashire housebuilder to his daughter, it caught the attention of the national press, winning the Daily Mail Home of the Year in 1936 as well as appearing in Architects’ Journal as ‘The House of the Future’ – a copy of that magazine can still be found in the house.

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Categories / Retro Women's Fashion

Dogtooth Coat from F&F at Tesco

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While the autumnal fashions roll in now is the time to get some fantastic outerwear. Florence & Fred at Tesco has a great new range packed with vintage inspiration.

The Dogtooth print is a perennial classic, but the retro looks don't end there. The coat's made in a 60s swing style, with a wide collar and an A-line silhouette. Oversized buttons and three quarter length sleeves finish off this style with flair.

It's available now from Tesco for £45.

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