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Once Upon a Time wallpaper by Tres Tintas

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Once-Upon-A-Time-wallpaper

A contemporary kid's wallpaper, with a nostalgic 1950s look, this Once Upon a Time wallpaper by Tres Tintas is sure to capture your child's imagination. 

The wallpaper is covered with the kind of imagery that could have come straight out of a kid's storybook: robots and spacemen mingle with zebras, carousel horses and tea cups. It's definitely a design that looks backwards for its subject matter and illustrative style. 

The retro look is enhanced by the colour scheme: the paper is available with the blue background shown, or a light taupe. 

It costs £65 a roll. 

Order it from Wallpaper Direct

Categories / eBay watch

eBay watch: Grand Star GS-969 space age flip clock radio

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Not just a stylish piece of early 1970s space age design, this Grand Star GS-969 flip clock radio also comes with its original packaging and instructions.

Apparently dating from 1974, it's described as a 'fully functioning' flip clock and alarm with AM/FM radio and the option to illuminate (should you need a time check in the night). All topped off with that deep orange outer, very reminiscent of the era. That's good enough. But also included is the original box, internal packaging, instructions and original earpiece. Impressive.

There are 'very minor blemishes', presumably through age, but apart from that, all is well and good. See that packaging over the page and if you fancy this, the bidding currently stands at just £1.

Find out more at the eBay website

Update: The seller also seems to have one for sale in white too. Check that out here.

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Categories / Design and Interiors

Biba cards from Our Shop

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Biba playing card

Re-purposing old playing cards into greeting cards is quite a common trick but these Biba cards from Our Shop are just too nice to be passed over.

Each card uses a Biba playing card that's been mounted onto brown kraft card as its focal point. Though the playing cards date to the 1960s, they've definitely got more of a 50s pin-up look. For obvious reasons, there's just one of each design with a wide range of attractive girls to pick from. 

The cards cost £5.10 each. 

Buy them online

Categories / Homeware, Kids

Ethan School Desk

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Your little darlings are probably more likely to do their homework on a laptop than writing in an exercise book, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t still give them a good old-fashioned desk to sit at, like this Ethan School Desk.

Inspired by school desks from the 1950s and 1960s, the design has been updated by using a sleek white finish. The tilt and height of the desk can be adjusted, so your kids won’t outgrow it too quickly. It is currently on sale with the price reduced from£322 to £229.98.

Buy it online at Furniture123.

Categories / Architecture

Up for auction: Melville Aubin-designed Sunpark 1930s art deco house in Brixham, Devon

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Regular readers will remember we featured this house around 18 months back, when it first went up for sale. Well, for any number of reasons, this stunning Melville Aubin-designed Sunpark 1930s art deco house in Brixham, Devon didn't sell – and is now heading to auction at a much-reduced guide price.

Sunpark is an incredibly distinctive, grade II-listed property, which dates back to 1935 and comes with plenty of features dating back to that original era too – always important when it comes to art deco homes. That includes the white asymmetric exterior, the distinctive radius bay windows, a stair case with polished Chrome handrail, parquet flooring throughout, original fireplaces and what every art deco home needed, a solarium.

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Categories / Art and Photography, Film and TV

Delia Derbyshire poster by Piper Gates Design

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From the people who gave us the likes of the Joy Division and Syd Barrett colouring books, not to mention the Prisoner and Bedazzled posters comes the Delia Derbyshire poster by Piper Gates Design.

Who is Delia Derbyshire you ask? Well, you're unlikely to know unless you are a Doctor Who or vintage electronica fan. She was a pioneer of the latter and best-known for her work as part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, where she produced the famous Doctor Who theme, amongst other things.

This suitably '60s poster is limited to 45 copies, sized at 500mm x 700mm and printed on very high quality 194 gram paper, each one signed by the artist. £22.99 gets you one. See a shot of the poster on a wall over the page.

Find out more at the eBay website

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