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• Melise Faux Fur Coat from Boohoo Pink
• eBay watch: Ercol Studio Couch / Sofa Bed
• Colourblock Ponte Dress from Dorothy Perkins
• For sale: 1960s-designed five-bedroom house in West Byfleet, Surrey
• Dwell sale starts - up to 50 per cent off
• Vintage Camera Prints
• Bryonie Porter Kids’ Furniture
• Calyx inspired tableware at Heal's
• '50s kitchen print aprons at Stitch Designworks

Melise Faux Fur Coat from Boohoo Pink Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:15 AM PST With faux fur coats all the rage once more on the high street, most designs have focused on a mid sixties look or earlier. If you're feeling braver in your vintage look apparel, this Melise Faux Fur Coat from Boohoo Pink taps into a later sixties look to bring something out of the ordinary. The coat's oversized cut, along with longer fur fibres, creates a more extreme silhouette. Tapping into the decadently trashy aesthetic of Edie Sedgwick and Nico, this coat speaks of a later sixties retro appeal that's less often seen from mainstream brands. Get it online from Boohoo, as part of their Pink collection, for £70. Find out more from the website

eBay watch: Ercol Studio Couch / Sofa Bed Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:02 AM PST Regular readers will recall we featured the Ercol 1950s anniversary Studio Couch range, offering the classic sofa range with some bright new finishes. That range started at £1,685, but this Ercol Studio Couch on eBay is currently going for a lot less. It's the same design, the work of company founder Lucian Ercolani and originally launched in the late 1950s. This is probably a fairly recent reissue, described as being in 'solid' condition and in 'light elm', with a few marks and scratches from wear. The upholstery may or may not be original. But saying all that, it looks like a decent option if you want to spend a little time cleaning it up. £36 is the price as I right, with the seller also offering a couple of matching armchairs in a separate auction. Find out more at the eBay website

Colourblock Ponte Dress from Dorothy Perkins Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:37 AM PST With every batch of new Christmas frocks in the shops it's beading and sequins that we see most of all. For something a little more subtle and classic, this Colourblock Ponte Dress from Dorothy Perkins is an ideal choice. Using blocking to create a decidedly sixties inspired pattern, the dress' shape follows that inspiration too. A large, flared sleeve compliments the high neckline and shorter hemline to create a shape that's structured and striking. Finished in a muted mocha shade, this dress has a timeless appeal. It's available now from Dorothy Perkins for £36. Find out more from the website

For sale: 1960s-designed five-bedroom house in West Byfleet, Surrey Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:18 AM PST Not every house we feature necessarily comes with a designer pedigree. This 1960s-designed five-bedroom house in West Byfleet, Surrey is just one of 11 similarly-styled houses on the same estate. But it's an incredibly distinctive house nonetheless. The interior has been made to look very 'average' to be honest, but it's a design that should be very easy to change around and return to a '60s-style pad, if that's what you want. See the interior shots to see what we mean by that. The house itself offers three reception rooms (including a dual aspect living room), an L-shaped hallway, open staircase and five bedrooms (one en-suite). There's also a built-in garage, some timber cladding and a flat roof. Love that balcony to the rear too. £565,000 is the asking price, which isn't cheap, but we suspect is indicative of prices in that particular area. Find out more at the Gascoigne-Pees website

Dwell sale starts - up to 50 per cent off Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:00 AM PST Looks like the sales are starting even earlier this year, with Dwell offering up items at up to 50 per cent off from today. We have featured the store a few times in the past, offering plenty of retro-styled items and designs. You'll have to dig around for the full 50 per cent discount, but all items are cut heavily, including this space age coffee table. It's a 60s-inspired design with cut-out sides, a black gloss lacquer surface and a black tempered mirrored glass surface. Originally it was £329, but in the sale it's £179. See all items in the Dwell sale

Vintage Camera Prints Posted: 21 Dec 2010 06:02 AM PST   Another delightful Etsy find – a set of Vintage Camera Prints by Suzannah Tucker. The set consists of four photo blocks, each one depicting a different vintage camera, namely a Minolta, an sx-70, a Duaflex and an Ikonette. The images have the soft focus and colours associated with old-fashioned photography. The blocks measures 9.5 cm square and are 18mm thick. Priced around £38, plus another £12 or so shipping from New Zealand to the UK, you can buy them online from Suzannah Tucker's Etsy shop.

Bryonie Porter Kids’ Furniture Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:55 AM PST   We have mentioned Bryonie Porter's wallpaper covered furniture before, but she now does pieces of furniture for children's rooms. The examples shown on her website are mainly chest of drawers, which have been decorated with comics, vintage maps and wallpaper from Lizzie Allen. Pictured here is a piece that has been coved in Sukie's Alphabet wrapping paper to create something that looks good and is educational too. For details of pieces currently available or to commission something yourself, contact Bryonie Porter via her website. Expect to pay somewhere between £700 and £1,200.

Calyx inspired tableware at Heal's Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:23 AM PST Cast your minds back to October and you may remember Heal's Dinky armchair. It was especially noticeable for its upholstery which was a reinterpretation of Lucienne Day's famous Calyx design. If you liked that, Heal's have gone one step further with the design applying it to this set of Calyx inspired tableware.  Calyx was originally created for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and remains one of Day's most famous designs. For this reinterpretation, geometric stem-like forms of the designs have been applied against white porcelain. In a bit of circularity, the placement and use of the natural motif on this tableware echoes a design that itself drew heavily from the 1950s - Sanderson's hugely popular Dandelion Clocks range.  Prices for this tableware start at £5.50 for a cereal bowl and go up to £25 for a platter.  See the range online

'50s kitchen print aprons at Stitch Designworks Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:51 AM PST Love the '50s? Fans of the decade who also plan on getting a little messy may want to invest in this kitchen print apron from Stitch Designworks. It's a pretty frilled apron featuring a kitsch print showing a fifties home economic lesson - think immaculately clad women laying tables or getting things out of ovens. The apron is topped off with a piped heart pocket on its front. Like this print? You can also get it on seat pads, oven gloves or tea cosies.  The half apron pictured costs £14 or you can get a full apron for £16.50.  Buy it online

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