Several generations of young girls have grown up reading the Nancy Drew Mysteries, with the heroine first appearing in the 1930s and continuing to solve new cases to this day.
"The Nancy Drew Cook: Clues to Good Cooking" is very much the 1970s incarnation of Nancy Drew as it was originally published in 1973, but reissued in 2005. The easy-to-follow recipes tie in with the most famous of Miss Drew’s cases.
It is available from Amazon for less than £5.
I love the industrial looks of the Santa & Cole Digamma armchair.
Designed back in 1957 by Ignazio Gardella, it offers comfort via the upholstered seat, back and arms, mixed with that utilitarian steel frame and legs, not to mention the mechanical control for the three-position backrest.
If you like your style mixed with simplicity, it could be for you. The Digamma sells for around £3,500.
Disco style isn’t something that’s often easy to carry off, especially for less casual occasions. Thankfully, the accessories wardrobe of the era is chock full with plenty of style for designers to plunder. This Anya Hindmarch Disco box bag is a perfect evening bag inspired by the most fabulous 70s trend.
The metallics avoid looking trashy through their muted colours and structured box construction. Added to the circular pattern, there’s something quintessentially Studio 54 about this piece.
It’s currently available from Net-a-Porter for £260.
The Peplum skirt is a piece of fashion history which just continues to recurr, though not rarely with the same flair as its reinvention in the 1940s. Inspired by ancient Grecian style, the fringed skirt’s unusual structure makes a real statement that just keeps coming back into style.
ASOS.com have jumped on the revival with a number of skirts, some clearly taking inspiration from a minor eighties invention of the classic. Whatever your favoured clothing decade, there’s one for almost everyone.
The current credit crunch means there are less retro houses for sale in the UK – but there are still plenty elsehwere, if you have the money. Something you’ll need yo buy this André Bruyere-designed house in Saint Remy de Provence, Bouches du Rhône, France.
Bruyere designed this in 1968, based on traditional Mediterranean architecture, but throwing in some period 60s space age for an individual feel. Not that it needs much to stand out – the huge one-floor house is sat in one hectare of land, near to a nature reserve. Yes, we’re talking complete isolation, if that’s what you want and with a roof that doubles up as a patio, plenty of space to sit back and admire the landscape.
More than a feature wall, the Lizzie Allen Telephone Box wallpaper is a huge piece of art, should you have a wall big enough to cope with it.
It’s actually a life-sized print of a traditional red telephone box, hand screen-printed on super-wide paper, each one bespoke, so in effect, also unique. And you’ll certainly be unique in your street with one of these on the wall – and if you position your phone nearby, you can lay claim to having your very own phone box.
For reference, the wallpaper (which is also offered in a gold variation) is 135cm wide and 300cm tall (that around 10ft) – so make sure you have the wall space before ordering. And at £330, it might be as well to get a professional in to hang it.
