Looking for a new toaster? Nothing bashful and discreet. Then the DeLonghi Icona CTO400.3R red toaster, to take four pieces of bread at a time, is just for you. Sitting there in your kitchen, all chunky with just a look of the Italian sportscar styling of the fifties and sixties,this retro machine with futuristic ambition will […]
Fully internally refurbished clunky telephones from the 1970s are now available. Robust and colourful (you can have bright red, for instance), they complement any
room style,and unlike the cordless phone of today, they are difficult to lose. And if, by chance ,you have forgotten where it is installed you will experience instant recall when it rings. […]
Recently,at Christmas in fact, I took delivery of a Roberts WM201 Wi-Fi Internet Radio and Media Player (shown among the above at centre back) as a present. It has become my ‘pride and joy’ with endless hours of listening mainly the programmes playing 50s and 60s music. My radio with its black polished case […]
Ettore Sottsass (b.1917), who passed away in December last year,was a highly influential,if flambuoyant and colourful , designer and architect, whose powers were at their height in the second half of the 20th century.
During his nearly 40year period as designer and consultant to Olivetti, he produced many designs for office machinery and furniture ,as well […]