Categories / Gadgets and Tech, Music

Numark launches PT-01USB turntable for vinyl to MP3

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Not the first of this kind of turntable, but a mix of retro looks and Numark’s know-how could make the PT-01USB turntable a winner.

The deck has USB connectivity and works with both PC and Mac, offering mains and battery power, a built-in monitoring speaker, +/- 10% pitch control, belt-drive motor with 33, 45 and 78 RPM settings, stereo RCA line output and headphone jack plus Numark’s EZ Vinyl Converter 2 software, making it easy to convert your tracks and drop into iTunes.

Also included is a phono cartridge, USB cable and 45 RPM adapter. No news of a price as yet, but expect it in the third quarter of 2008.

Find out more at the Numark website

Via Retro Thing

Categories / Design and Interiors

Autoban offers mid-century style with the Bergere Bed

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We have featured just one bed in all of Retro To Go’s history. Not that we have anything against beds – it’s just rare to find an interesting, let alone one that’s retro. But we have just found our second – the Autoban Bergere Bed.

It’s an incredibly stylish design, very much in the mid-century mould and if I was a betting man, I would say it was Scandinavian. But it’s not – the bed is out of Turkey, the work of Seyhan Ozdemir and Sefer Caglar, based on the pair’s stylish Bergere armchair.

For your money, you get an oak or walnut frame, fabric or leather upholstery and a box-like design with those cool retro curves. Not the cheapest bed on the market at £2,695, but if you are looking to make a statement in the bedroom, this will say it for you. Check the website for stockists.

Find out more at the Autoban by De La Espada website

Categories / Music

La Belle Epoque: EMI’s French Girls 1965-68

LabellaepoqueWhilst the V&A celebrates the sounds and styles of the Supremes this summer, this compilation pays tribute to the French sound from a similar period. "La Belle Epoque: EMI’s French Girls 1965-68" brings together 20 songs released on EMI’s various French labels in the 1960s.

It goes beyond the usual suspects of Serge Gainsbourg’s women and Françoise Hardy, to include more obscure acts, but ones that nonetheless still have the unmistakable French sound – although Gainsbourg does pop up with Michele Arnaud’s “Les Papillons Noirs”. It also features Sandie Shaw, who obviously isn’t French but did release some songs in other languages.

It is available to buy from Amazon for under £5, so a cheap way to bring a little French sophistication to your stereo this summer.

Categories / Art and Photography, Film and TV

Design Museum’s Saul Bass limited edition exhibition poster

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Back in 2004, London’s Design Museum held an exhibition of the work of Saul Bass, producing a superbly stylish poster to go along with it. If you missed it, here’s some good news – a limited edition re-print is now available.

Saul Bass was the master of film title design thanks to his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. This poster was inspired by Bass’ titles for Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder and is sized at 1000 x 700mm and printed on parilux matt white 150 gsm paper.

Just £15 buys you one – but don’t hang about, once the new stock has sold through, no more will be printed.

Find out more at the Design Museum Store website

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Categories / Watches

Michael Young PXR-6 digital watch

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Looking both retro and very modern at the same time, the Michael Young PXR-6 digital watch is a stylish timepiece that doesn’t cost the earth.

Young has updated his previous PXR-5 watch, adding waterproofing, new buttons and an improved blue night light, but keeping the same minimalist look and more or less the same functionality/detailing – day/date, adjustable one-inch wide velcro bracelet (black is standard, others are available) and a stainless steel, black or gold casing.

It’s exclusive to Charles & Marie and on pre-order – because it’s expected to sell out in no time. Yours for $130 (around £65).

Find out more at the Charles & Marie website

Categories / Food and Drink

Joseph Joseph Green Retro Platter and Dip Bowl

311pic_large The latest product from Joseph Joseph, makers of those fine worktop savers, is a retro patterned Serving Platter and Dip Bowl.

The green pattern is very much in the style of Orla Kiely or ISAK, but has been designed by the Stockholm based illustrator Bo Lundberg. It is printed on a hygienic and food safe glass platter, which comes with a separate glass dip bowl, which isn’t shown in the photograph.

Available to buy online from Iggloo, it costs £22.50.