A woman in the States recently sent me a frosted Christmas bauble because she knows it’s the era I’m into, but we’ve never met. From the round Keracolor TV and the disco balls that adorn the bathroom to the bold orange curtains, shaggy rugs, plants aplenty, those amazing kitchen tops and tea towels (she sells those you know) and all those amazing furnishings.

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It’s Judy’s mother Fran, a battle-scarred second-wave feminist, who brings a dose of reality to this honeyed fiction.Estelle Bilson is an antiques dealer, interior designer, author, 70s expert and television presenter. Surrounded by antiques growing up, Estelle was raised by a father who made cabinets and collected antiques. The 1970s had an element of fun and my interiors prediction for the coming year is for lots of colour and frivolity,’ she said. In the early 2010s you got this surge of interest in 1950s fashion and pastimes, from knitting to partner-dancing, cupcake baking and the WI,” she says. Photograph: Alex Telfer/The Observer Vintage weekenders: Lisa Lane and Peter Baker, in love with each other and the 1930s.

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s House Manchester was founded in 2019 as a Location Home when Estelle decided to share her love of the era on social media, constant requests to advise people where she sourced her vintage pieces lead to a light bulb moment when she realised it was possible to launch her own range of wall coverings, fabrics and accessories.The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. At the start he was a bit reluctant but we talked it through and now he’s into it and spots things for me. Scarcely anything seems to be built to last, which is just as well, as the next Instagram-led interior design trend will be along soon enough.

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A decade that was once laughed at for its excess, but has gradually been re-evaluated and rehabilitated as the years have passed. I guess if pushed for an actual person I would love to do the Queen, resplendent in her finery, there’s definitely something uber-kitsch about her and the corgis! My parents were upright Jamaicans who raised me properly and taught me respect,” he says of his London childhood. A lot of my artwork at school and university was inspired by abstract impressionists like Jackson Pollock, Warhol and Rothko I guess it's something I've always been interested in.

For me, today, they continue to inspire me both as beautiful works of art that link me to my past and as cult popular culture references and kitsch icons, his work is instantly recognisable and unmistakably Tretchikoff. The way I see it, everything went a bit south with the 1960s’: ‘wartime spiv’ Mick Sinclair photographed at the East Somerset Railway, Cranmore Railway Station, Cranmore, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 4QP. The couple bonded over their shared passion for the mid-20th century and recently moved to a 1929 three-bed semi which they are restoring to a 1930s look, ripping out the UPVC windows and replacing them with wooden windows with art deco motifs, and painting the exterior a lively primrose offset by black gloss. If I live by any 30s values in my life, I suppose it’s trying to have good manners: be polite, and nice to folk, and help them as much as you can. Simon, who comes from Anglesey in North Wales, has first entered the antiques industry back in 1987.

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De Sarasola also takes exception to the peacock TV light and tiger’s head planters which sit, grimacing, in the dining room. The idea that any era was purely “of itself” is, of course, nonsense anyway, as historian Claire Langhamer points out. The domestic retreat demanded by the coronavirus lockdown, she adds, has served to heighten people’s focus on domestic aesthetics and routines.When it comes to soft furnishing, then bright bold graphics, florals and sumptuous velvets are the only way forward for a true 70s vibe. Over the past 30 odd years I bought and sold to enhance my own collections, and to upgrade the furniture in our home. Unlike those watching at home, the stars of the long-running program, including host Nick Hewer, failed to acknowledge his shocking suggestion with many taking to Twitter to comment.