If you want your clothes to last, its important to look after them, hang them up and treat them with respect. Here is the perfect the coat hanger to hang your retro threads upon – the Zilka Coat Hanger by Ryan Franks.
Made from Sundela Board which is recycled and compressed newspapers, the hangers have been digitally printed with sixties inspired graphics to create distinctive and environmentally sound pieces.
To order and enquiry about prices, you’ll need contact Ryan Franks via his website.
There’s a number ways of converting LPs to a digital format these days, but nearly everyone requires a computer, some software and a challenging time with an instruction book. Not the Faltima 010 from Gais.
It launches in Japan in late October, offering everything you might need from a small stereo system, with CD and LP playback, plus AM/FM radio. But it has a few special tricks, notably, thwe ability to copy your music from LP to CD with a single press of a button. Or you can convert it to MP3 just as easily if you want the tracks for your portable player.
The one drawback is having to turn over the record I presume. No news on price or if this is coming to the UK – we’ll keep you posted.
Find out more at the Gais website (translated)
Designers and high street alike have gone crazy for retro inspiration in their women’s wear this year, whether it’s Mod chic or a more demure edge like this number.
This Lauren Moffatt dress has a great retro shape, with three quarter length sleeves and a wonderful collar. The silk and gold embellishments lift it from the ordinary Little Black Dress, and the ’60s mini hemline is perfectly offset by the high neck.
Unfortunately the label and materials mean it’s by no means a bargain at $409. Still, it’d certainly turn heads.
Struggling to afford an original Tulip dining table? You could get yourself down to Marks & Spencer for this Veneto glass dining table.
Chrome and glass is the order of the day here – the steel frame is finished in chrome, with a grey-tinted toughened safety glass top more than capable of a few knocks.
This Italian-made table has a total size of 72.5cm (height) x 120cm (diameter) and is currently on offer, priced at £239, down from its usual £299 price point for a limited time.
For all its faults, the one thing you were guaranteed in the 1980s was colour. And it doesn’t get much more colourful than the Vision storage system.
Originally designed in 1985 by Pierre Mazairac and Karel Boonzaaijer for Dutch brand Pastoe, it’s a design that was undoubtedly influenced by the Rubik’s Cube. The Vision is made up of nine lacquered MDF cabinets, each with an internal shelf, with doors that close using a pneumatic system.
And you can buy it again, courtesy of the Conran Shop, which has an exclusive on the reissue. But you’ll have to do some saving first – it is priced at £9,350.
Some great design has come out of Brazil over the years – and right up there is this M3 sofa.
It was designed by Miguel Forte & Jacob Ruchti back in the 1950s, but its wood frame and fabric upholstery still look incredibly stylish and contemporary today. Indeed, you can still buy it today, courtesy of UK-based Brazilia Interiors, which has reissued the M3 and some size variations for today’s market.
Obviously that style comes at a price – it retails for £3250, but that does buy you a genuine classic.
