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eBay watch: Toshiba 1970s space age RC-693F tower clock radio

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Yes, it's an old gadget, but this Toshiba RC-693F tower clock radio is a stylish one – and still practical too.

A great piece of 1970s space age design, the RC-693F gives you the time via those flip numbers, has am alarm to get you out of bed and has AM/FM radio reception. It even packs a sleep timer.

Condition is described as 'used but good', with normal signs of age, but it is fully-operational, which is every bit as important. Right now bidding is at just £2.

Find out more at the eBay website

Categories / Homeware

Anonymous Shop Cushions

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Anonymous Shop bring a quirky sense of humour to their products, which is particularly apparent in their cushion designs such as the Urbane Fish design pictured here.

Just as we like it, this design offers a surreal combination of a Victorian-style illustration of a fish next to a Brutalist tower block. Victorian illustrations crop up in their other designs such as the Yorkshire Nectar series. All of the cushions have a vintage-style ticking back and measure 45cm square.

Buy the cushions online priced £46 from Anonymous Shop.

Categories / Art and Photography

Eames-inspired Keep On Rocking print by Yumalum

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Love the Charles and Ray Eames Rocker? Well, you can show your love to everyone who visits your home with this Eames-inspired Keep On Rocking print by Yumalum.

It's a retro-styled piece of artwork celebrating that particular seat, throwing in more than a splash of colour and a psychedelic twist. It's printed onto heavyweight 180gsm matte paper and sized at 50 x 70cm, so perfect for a standard Ikea frame.

£34.56 secures you one. See it 'in situ' per the page and check out the site for more similarly-styled artwork.

Find out more at the Yumalum Etsy website

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Categories / Design and Interiors

Antique brass desk spotlight

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We've featured a couple lights in this style recently: now this antique brass desk spotlight offers the same look with a twist. 

The twist is revealed in the name. While this looks like a free standing floor model, in fact it measures just 45cm high making it more suitable to a table than making a grand lighting statement. The scale aside, it's got that vintage look, with the requisite tripod legs, and offers an interesting look for your desk. 

The price is £220.

Buy it from Alexander & Pearl 

Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: 1960s Peter Charles-Greed-designed house in Burley, New Forest, Hampshire

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I'm not sure it's all that from the outside, but inside, the 1960s is alive and well in this Peter Charles-Greed-designed house in Burley, New Forest, Hampshire.

Designed in 1968 by the architect for his own use, the house is located on a large, secluded site with a paddock in a peaceful part of the New Forest National Park. Inspired by Alvar Aalto and Frank Lloyd Wright, it's all about space inside, with large rooms and floor-to-ceiling windows. But best of all, the lavish interior from the 1960s is still pretty much in place – including lots of built-in marble and American walnut furniture and some great period light fittings. For lovers of the era, it's a dream.

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Categories / Homeware

Sliced Grandfather Clock

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The Sliced Grandfather Clock from Urban Outfitters provides a suggestion of the style of the traditional grandfather clock, but taking up a fraction of the space – ideal for those of us whose homes have hallways that are less than majestic.

The clock consists of a cross-section of an old-fashioned grandfather clock face. Not only is it missing the grand casing, it isn’t even the whole clock face, but there is just enough of the numbers there for you to be able to tell what the time is. Which leaves more space on your walls for all the prints and artwork we’ve featured recently.

It costs £45 from Urban Outfitters.