Interior Design in the 1980s

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

Waterbeds In 1968, Charles Prior Hall, a furniture designer in California decided to create the world's most comfortable chair. Taking his…
K-Tel K-Tel were famous for their TV commercials pitching their mass-market compilation LPs and tapes and their household 'gadgets'. Everything they…
Dogs Playing Poker The series of oil-on-canvas paintings universally known as “Dogs Playing Poker” was created by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844 - 1934),…
Macramé Even in the 1970's most of the cool set thought macramé was only for hippies or bored convicts. But you…
Black Lights In the late 60s and early 70s, the Black Light brought a new dimension to our world. White T-shirts and…
Peace Sign The ubiquitous icon of the Aquarian age and one of the most widely known symbols in the world. In Britain…
Lawn Flamingos In 1957, Don Featherstone designed the first plastic lawn flamingo for Union Products of Leominster, Massachusetts. A trained sculptor with…
Dansette The Dansette record player became an iconic artefact of the youth culture of the 1950s and 1960s, and the name…