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Pinup Pins from Heartbreaker Fashion

Posted on 26th February 2009 | Leave a comment

Pinup girl imagery from the 1950s heyday is some of the most well received pop art of the 20th century, and there's a whole host of images to choose from. From both magazines and pulp fiction, Heartbreaker Fashion have chosen some of the best pinup images and used them on some fun little Pinup Pins.

The badges each display a different pinup illustration and provide an easy, cute way to pay homage to the subculture. Great for a gift idea, these come in assorted packs of five directly from Heartbreaker Fashion's online shop.

A random selection of five, or the picks of your choice (providing you get in touch before you order) cost just $5 for five.

Find out more from the website

Categories / Homeware

Space-Age Crease Magazine Rack

Posted on 26th February 2009 | Leave a comment

Blue Marmalade produces environmentally-friendly designs, many of which are in Sixties-looking pure white such as the Crease Magazine Rack.

It is also available in a red/white combination but it loses the space-age style that the all white one has. It is supplied flat-packed (adding to its green credentials) but the pieces just slot together, so it should not cause any problems even for the least DIY capable.

The Crease Magazine Rack costs £32 and can be bought from The Green Haus website.

Categories / Women's Fashion

Retro-Patterned Wallets

Posted on 26th February 2009 | Leave a comment

If you like the designs of Orla Kiely and Cath Kidston, but can not stretch to their prices, then This is Glint have some Retro-Patterned Wallets in similar styles at a fraction of the price.

There are five designs to choose from; blue flowers, orange and brown floral, Kidston-like spotty red, and paisley in green or blue. They measure 20cm long and have compartments for coins and cards.

Priced just £6.95, they can be bought online from This is Glint.

Categories / Architecture, Property

To let: The Turn – grade II-listed 1960s house in Haddenham, Bucks

Posted on 25th February 2009 | Leave a comment

Not the biggest house on the market, but if you want to spend time in one of the most important mid-century houses in the UK, you can by renting The Turn.

The Turn is a two-bedroom property that forms part of a group of a trio of houses designed and built by the renowned architect Peter Aldington in 1964 – 67, their importance obvious with the grade II listing (like the majority of the Aldington residential designs).

Categories / Design and Interiors, eBay watch

eBay watch: Artifort Four-Leaf Clover table

Posted on 25th February 2009 | Leave a comment

We've heard of Kho Liang le and we're well aware of Artifort, but we have never encountered the Artifort Four-Leaf Clover table by Kho Liang le before we saw it on eBay.

It's a stunning design, a slightly more quirky and unusual Tulip-style table if you like, designed by Kho Liang le around four years later in 1960s and produced by Artifort during that decade, probably in the early 70s too, but it certainly hasn't been in production for many years.

Probably not tall enough for a dining table, standing at just 43cm (and 120cm wide), it's certainly perfect for a feature or large coffee table. And at £400, it looks like something of a shrewd investment too.

See the full details at the eBay website

Categories / Film and TV

Mike Leigh The BBC Collection DVD boxset

Posted on 25th February 2009 | Leave a comment

If you have an interest in classic British TV drama, you really need to own the Mike Leigh The BBC Collection DVD boxset.

It contains all of the BBC's surviving Mike Leigh works, running from 1973's Hard Labour through to The Long Goodbye in 2000 over six DVDs, throwing in classics like Abigail's Party, Nuts In May and Grown-Ups along the way, not to mention director's commentaries from the man himself, a must-read booklet, documentaries, interviews and a gaggle of rarely-seen short films from 1975.

See over the page for all the details and if you like what you read, you can pick the box up from 6th April 2009, priced around the £50 mark.

Amazon website

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