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Five 1970s-style table lamps at La Redoute

Five 1970s-style table lamps at La Redoute

1970s-style wall murals by Bobbi Beck

1970s-style wall murals by Bobbi Beck

Lego goes pop art with Robert Indiana’s Love

Lego goes pop art with Robert Indiana’s Love

Categories / Men's Fashion

Lyle & Scott limited edition Vintage Windbreaker

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Not where you are, but here (in less-than-sunny Manchester), it’s been pouring down for the last three days. Time for a waterproof – and a good time for the Lyle & Scott limited edition Vintage Windbreaker to become available.

This is straight out of the company’s archives and limited to just 1,000 pieces worldwide. Three colourways available (including the two pictured here), each featuring a split colour design and featuring the distinctive Lyle & Scott eagle on the breast.

Made from a lightweight nylon, they retail for £69.

Find out more at the End Clothing website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Spirografica’s exclusive Lucienne Day handmade cushion collection

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Lucienne Day designs are all the rage right now, with Spirografica pulling off quite a coup with an exclusive range of Lucienne Day handmade cushions, selected in conjunction with the designer herself.

Lucienne herself has selected the designs which she feels are the most appropriate for revival, including iconic designs such as Calyx, Spectators and Flotilla. The front of each cushion is digitally printed onto linen/cotton and each colourway is then carefully matched to the original fabric.

The cushions are handmade and filled with an 18” feather filled cushion pad. They retail for £70 each, but should prove a good investment.

Find out more at the Spirografica website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Spiro angled table lamp

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A nice mix of styles on display with the Spiro angled table lamp.

The lower half (the arm and base that is) are very much in a modernist style, right down to the classic switch on the base. But the actual light has more of a 70s look about it. Saying that, the two go together well, whether you go for the table lamp in cream and chrome or black and chrome.

It’s sized at 70cm x 20cm, priced at £97.50.

Find out more at the Graham & Green website

Categories / Design and Interiors

B&Q’s Rainbow space age light shade

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Just to show you don’t have to spend a fortune to get a piece of smart design, here’s the B&Q’s Rainbow space age light shade.

It’s incredibly eye-catching and ideal to finish off a room with a space age feel. It’s also lightweight, made of brushed aluminium and easy to hang – just clip it on.

It can take up to a 100w bulb and is an absolute bargain at £18.98.

Find out more at the B&Q website

Categories / Christmas, Design and Interiors

Eco-friendly 1950s Baubles Christmas cards

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Yes, it’s rapidly approaching that time of year when everyone expects a Christmas card – and you have to go and find something that isn’t too tacky to send. Well, let us save you the trouble with this rather smart 1950s Baubles Christmas cards.

Designed by Phoebe Moore and available online from the V&A, the cards offer up a 50s-themed design that’s very festive, but not too cheesy. And you’ll get bonus points for being eco-friendly, with the paper made from sustainable sources, the envelopes made from recycled juice cartons and the wrapping created from cornstarch.

A pack of 10 same design cards with plain white envelopes retails for £6.

Find out more at the V&A website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware, Kids

Eero Aarnio Pony Chair

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Aarnioponyb"A chair is a chair, is a chair, is a chair … but a seat does not necessarily have to be a chair. It can be anything as long it is ergonomically correct. A seat could even be a small and soft Pony on which you can ‘ride’ or sit sideways."

So said the designer Eero Aarnio and low and behold he designed the Pony Chair in 1970. Whilst this chair obviously will appeal to children with its oversized cartoon-like form, it is actually large enough for adult use, if you so desired.

Vertigo Interiors are selling the Pony Chair for under £200 so it might not be an authorised version (USA based sites like Nova68 are selling them for over $2000), but it looks pretty much the same and if you are buying for a child, they probably won’t mind.