Decor

When the Bean Bag emerged in the late 60s and 70s it was heralded as the furniture of tomorrow for the well-heeled of today. It...

In the late 60s and early 70s, the Black Light brought a new dimension to our world. White T-shirts and teeth suddenly would glow in...

The Dansette record player became an iconic artefact of the youth culture of the 1950s and 1960s, and the name became a generic term...

Newton's Balls (pictured at right) were the first widespread executive toys. These were a series of chrome ball-bearings suspended from a metal frame, which...

An abundance of disposable income combined with Hawaii's entrance into the Union in 1959 manifested itself in the US as a mania for all...

The suburban spread in the 1950s predictably led to fads in home decorating and design. Interior white woodwork was in and out again by 1950,...

Plastic chairs, blow-up furniture . . . If it's meant to be 'space age', how come it looks so old-fashioned? The majority of homes in...

Until the 70s, interior design was simply a DIY pursuit. Once the seventies hit, it was a lifestyle statement. The dominant colours were Puce, Red,...

Walls and fabrics in grey, neon hot pink and teal with accessories made of fashionable black plastic. mmm... nice.

K-Tel were famous for their TV commercials pitching their mass-market compilation LPs and tapes and their household 'gadgets'. Everything they sold was labelled "As advertised...

The Lava Lamp was created in the early 60s by a British engineer by the name of Craven Walker in an experiment gone awry....

In 1957, Don Featherstone designed the first plastic lawn flamingo for Union Products of Leominster, Massachusetts. A trained sculptor with a background in classical art,...

Even in the 1970's most of the cool set thought macramé was only for hippies or bored convicts. But you could make loads of...

The ubiquitous icon of the Aquarian age and one of the most widely known symbols in the world. In Britain it is recognised as standing...

The first large-scale exhibition of Pop Art was held at New York's Guggenheim Museum in 1963, featuring works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and...

In 1968, Charles Prior Hall, a furniture designer in California decided to create the world's most comfortable chair. Taking his cue from the very popular...