The Copeland Easy Chair is an interesting take on the classic club chair.
The seat and chair back are upholstered in distressed leather, in a colour described as “vintage cigar”, whilst the frame is made from steel, which provides a striking contrast. There is also a black leather version available.
The chair costs £1,1450 from Barker and Stonehouse.
I usually start with an outside view of a house, but the kitchen in this 1970s detached house at Bowness on Windermere could be a page from a 1970s design magazine.
It's not – this is a house up for sale right now, with much its structure and interior largely unchanged from the decade that produced it. Obviously the agent says it's a 'blank canvas to the new purchaser to redesign and create their ideal home'. But if you love the 1970s, it probably offers much more than that.
Right, here's a challenge to our regular 'design' readers – can you name this armchair design? It's listed as a 1960s Bond Chair, which I'm guessing is because of its similarity to the kind of chair Bond villains kicked back in 'back in the day'. I'm happy to be corrected though.
For your money, you get a fibreglass frame, a tulip base that swivels 360 degrees and a padding black leatherette inner. That's the good part.
On the downside, it has not been re-upholstered, so there's some 'cracking' with age. Otherwise, it's described as being in 'excellent' condition. Bidding stands at (and indeed opens at) £250. More images on the listing.
Cast your mind back and you may be able to remember the Odyssey desk, inspired by a 1940s design. That design proved understandably popular, so Graham and Green have produced an accompanying Odyssey chair.
The design is exclusive to the company and the back and arms echoes some of the sharp angles of the desk. The unusual look is completed by a suspended back, and gently sloping back legs. The design is completed by the linen seat.
The chair costs £195 and is currently available to pre-order online.
Long before it became synonymous with junk emails, spam was beloved of Monty Python fans and remembered perhaps a little less fondly by people forced to eat it during wartime rationing.
Gillian Kyle has chosen to celebrate this retro meat product in her Spam Tea Towel. The 100% cotton tea towel features a line drawing in brown of the tinned meat. The design, thankfully, is much more appealing than a tin of the dubious meat product itself.
It costs £7.50 from To Dry For.
We have featured Sean Sims in the past, but these new vintage-style Brighton Line prints are more than worth a mention.
They are illustrative travel posters, not unlike the kind of thing you would see from the '40s to the '70s, but particularly in the 1960s. It's an ongoing series, but there are a number available from launch – two are pictured above, two more over the page and more at the retail site.
All are A2 giclee editions, and are currently on sale for £50 each. They will also be on show throughout the Saturdays and Sundays in May (11am – 6pm) at the Yarn & Glue Open House as part of the Brighton Festival.
