Categories / Travel

Retro Retreat: 1960s Wooden House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk

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Looking to get away from the modern world for a week? The Wooden House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk can transport you back to the 1960s.

Built to a high specification in 1961, this wooden and open plan Colt bungalow still has many of the original 1960s bathroom and kitchen fittings, sympathetic furnishings of the period (including a large G-Plan dining table) and some modern-day luxuries to keep you amused, including Sky TV freeview,  a DVD player, barbecue and dishwasher. There’s also a large garden and off-road parking.

The house sleeps six people and is available to rent from  £690 to £1300 a week depending on the time of year. Shorter breaks are also available when there is late availability.

See more photos and find out more at the website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Missoni Special Edition Paulistano chair

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We featured the Paulistano chair some time back – it’s a design classic and indeed a Brazilian take on Bauhaus by Mendes da Rocha, dating back to 1957. 50 years on and it’s had a makeover – with the result being this Missoni Special Edition Paulistano chair.

This new version is a collaboration with the Missoni fashion house, cleverly using a reversible coloured flowers and stripe design on the stainless steel frame  – which means you get both designs for the one chair, or if you like, two different chairs.

You can pick up the special edition chair now from Bodie & Fou, priced at £775.

Find out more at the Bodie & Fou website

Categories / Gadgets and Tech

Ixos Disco Cube – iPod speaker like a 70s dancefloor

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Apart from the white suit and the moves, the most memorable thing about saturday Night Fever is that flashing dancefloor – and this Ixos Disco Cube replicates that look for your iPod.

Just stick in your iPod (including any of the new models), then blast out your music through the side speakers and bass-enhancing subwoofer, as well as watching those coloured lights flash in time with the music. There’s also a volume control and an option to switch off the lights if it gets a bit much.

You can pick one up now from retailers including John Lewis and PC World, priced at £59.99.

Find out more at the Ixos website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

“Hello There” Chair

HellothereThe “Hello There” Chair may have the sauciness of Lesley Phillips or British seaside postcards, but it is in fact a Dutch product.

Designed by Jeremy Harvey in 1979, it was reissued by Artifort in 2001, although it still seems surprisingly hard to find in the UK. Our Showhome currently has one yellow ‘Hello There’ for sale priced £290, but for a greater selection, you may have to look overseas.

Unicahome is selling them in sets of four in a choice of red, black, grey, white or metallic aluminium. They cost $1539 for the set, around £770 although the shipping will obviously bump that price up.

Categories / Architecture, Books

Brazil’s Modern Architecture

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Looking for a weighty bedtime read? Brazil’s Modern Architecture could be your thing.

Edited by Elisabetta Andreoli and Adrian Forty, it’s claimed to be the most comprehensive survey and analysis of 20th-century Brazilian architecture – from the first modern houses of the 1920s and Le Corbusier’s seminal visits to the country, through the well-known ‘heroic’ period of the 1940s and 1950s to its post-1964 crisis, and up to contemporary developments.

Granted you’ll need a firm resolve to get through the numerous essays and explanations, but with 200 colour illustrations and 130 black and white images, it can easily double up as a coffee table book. After all, who wouldn’t want to spend their time looking at photos of Brazilia?

Available now from Phaidon, it retails for just over £16.

Find out more about the book at Amazon.co.uk

Categories / Men's Fashion

Gloverall Monty duffle coat

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If you’re shopping around for a duffle coat for winter, why not get one with a heritage? Thats what you get with the Gloverall Monty duffle coat.

Standard issue to sections of the British military in World War II, it got its name from its famous Field Marshall fan (Montgomery aka Monty). The coat itself offers coverage up to knee length, a pancake hood with press stud adjusters, detachable throat tab, a fixed shoulder cape, two large front pockets, plus wooden toggle and rope loop fastening.

Oi Polloi currently have them in stock, priced at £219.99.

Find out more at the Oi Polloi website