Categories / Design and Interiors

1970s-style Cocoon pendant ceiling light at Marks & Spencer

Cocoon

Without being too 'in our face', this Cocoon pendant ceiling light at Marks & Spencer adds a bit of 1970s style to your living room.

A big domed affair, the Cocoon has a chromed exterior with what's described as a rippled interior, with a matching ceiling rose and clear thread.

Available online, you can pick one up for £99.

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Categories / Women's Fashion

Tailored Palazzo Pants from ASOS

Palazzo

While dresses and skirts with vintage inspiration are a common appearance on the high street at the moment, it takes a braver brand to attempt some retro trousers. These Palazzo Pants from ASOS are worth the risk, with effortlessly seventies chic.

The high waist, wide leg and light fabric all combine to create a true retro look, while the tailored waist and fashionable cut finish the decadent seventies style perfectly. Available in three colours, the firebrick orange is our pick for a flawlessly 70s look.

They're available now from ASOS for £40.

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Categories / Women's Fashion

Zig Zag Print Top from Miss Selfridge

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Continuing the high street's current love affair with seventies looks, the decade's unique mixture of hippy influence and decadent chic is providing the latest inspiration. This Zig Zag Print Top from Oasis treads the line between both those influences with ease.

With artfully draped loose fabric, the silhouette is instantly seventies thanks to a batwing style square cut. The mixture of floral prints and earthy colours adds a post-sixties folk style to a top that's versatile and stylish.

It's available from Oasis now for £26.

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Categories / eBay watch

eBay watch: 1970s Rosita UFO Vision 2000 space age hi-fi system

Rosita

We have featured a couple of Rosita audio system in the past (namely here and here), but this Rosita UFO Vision 2000 hi-fi system is undoubtedly our favourite.

Designed out of West Germany in 1971 by Thilo Oerke, the design is pure space age – a globe holding the audio kit, with a chromed tulip-style stand for support. sadly, the audio doesn't quite live up to the design, a very 'of the era' cassette player and radio, although the futuristic controls and slide-up clear domed lid make up for it in some way.

It's described as being in 'original unrestored condition, with 'only marginal wear' to show for the years. Not cheap though, £1,899 on a 'Buy It Now' or you can make an offer. Another image over the page, many more on the listing.

Find out more at the eBay website

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Categories / Cars and Bikes

Prince Charles’ 1979 Range Rover Classic up for sale

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For those who though we couldn't top the Queen Mother mini bus, well, we just might have with a 1979 Range Rover Classic, originally owned by Prince Charles in his bachelor days.

According to the seller, this is a 'lovely and now sought after' early model, but just as significantly, it was supplied new to the Royal Mews in Buckingham Palace for the exclusive use of HRH Prince Charles. Indeed, he got it for his 21st birthday. Not just any old early model either, some unique features (at the time) were also added.

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Categories / Women's Fashion

Floral Jumpsuit from Dorothy Perkins

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There's no denying that jumpsuits have made a huge comeback in mainstream fashion of late, with eighties revivalism as the driving force behind the return of the one-piece. There's plenty of inspiration left to plunder though, with seventies versions of the look.

This Floral Jumpsuit from Dorothy Perkins takes an unmistakeably seventies glance at jumpsuits with a unique silhouette. The culotte style wide-leg trousers, coupled with a halter neck bodice, create a chic disco-era silhouette. Using flowing fabric and a loosely fitting cut, this piece has a definite air of Halston inspiration.

It's available from Dorothy Perkins for £55.

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