They are enduring sentiments which is perhaps why so many products are emblazoned with those words Peace and Love. Either that or lots of designs are secretly ex-hippies. The latest item we’ve spotted in this style are these Peace and Love Cushions from Rockett St George.
Available in cream with red lettering or the striking white on black pictured here, they are made of a cosy wool felt material and cost £40.
Buy them from Rockett St George.
Fancy taking a three-course lunch to work? You can with this melamine lunchbox.
It’s a three-tier ‘tiffin tin’, which means you can pack in up to three different foods in the one container – or alternatively, you can just use it for general storage.
This retro-styled lunchbox has purple, lime and pink trays, secure metal grips and is sized at 24 x 13cm. It retails for £25.95.
Find out more at the Graham & Green website
Forget vintage handsets for your mobile, you can now get a CB radio for your phone.
This add-on from Taito, which you plug into the headset socket, is only available in Japan so far, allowing you to indulge in that early 80s craze of chatting to truckers and bedroom loners with phrases like ‘breaker breaker’, ’10-4′ and other such nonsense.
Alternatively, you can go out and buy some CB kit – which scarily (in this online age) you can still buy. Personally, I’d avoid both!
Find out more at the CScout Japan website
Via Technabob
A very stylish way to hold all your home cinema kit – this Petra TV stand.
Very much in the style of late 60s.early 70s space age design, it has a chrome ‘tulip-style’ base, a rounded white frame and a grey tempered glass shelf, which creates a total of three surfaces – enough for most of us I’m sure.
It’s available now to pre-order at Danetti, priced at £199.
Find out more at the Danetti website
Robert Opie’s ‘The 1970s Scrapbook’ is a wonderful trip down memory lane. Each page is a colourful montage on a different theme.
The decade’s favourite television shows are represented in a series of Radio Times covers, there is a spread devoted to crisps from the era and of course a collection of platform shoes. There is a small amount of text, but really this book is all about the myriad of images that are crammed onto each page.
It is available from various sellers on Amazon with prices as low as £9.99.
Remember Preston from the Ordinary Boys? He was an indie/mod contender who made his name (and lost his cool) on Celebrity Big Brother and in glossy celebrity magazines. Oh yes – and he married and divorced a reality TV star too.
Well, he might not be around much now, but his old car is – and you can buy it. A very stylish one too, this Jaguar XJS Cabriolet cost Preston £12,000 when he bought it, but you can grab it for around £7,995. A great example too – just two previous owners of this automatic, 29,000 miles from new (1986), a 5.3-litre engine, air con, loads of electrics, leather interior and that convertible top for when the sun shines.
Notoriously unreliable, but oozing cool, this could be a classic for the future.
Find out more about the car at the Auto Trader website
