Retro-ware will be selling a wide range of vintage ceramics and glass at the Hare and Hounds on Kings Heath High Street in Birmingham this Saturday (1st March).
German fat lava vases, Scandinavian glass and Midwinter pottery plus lots of other vintage homeware finds from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
10am – 4pm
Admission Free
The Guardian is today celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Argos catalogue.
Love it or loathe it many of us have grown up with the Argos catalogue. My sister confesses that as a child she would spend hours compiling wish-lists of furnishings for her imaginary home from it.
Retro-ware fondly recollects these 1970s Pye TVs, here handsomely sported on a sheepskin rug.
Orange was the big colour for home interiors in 1973 and hostess trolleys were the order of the day…
… and there were no anti-cellulite creams or body shrinking wraps, so women had to resort to more drastic methods of combatting flab in those troublesome areas.
Where would we be without Argos to cater for those everyday household essentials?
(Photograph by John Hall)
These classic Gul vases (floor vases) were designed by Otto Brauer and produced by Holmegaard from 1962. The design inspiration was a similar vase by Per Lutken which appeared in 1958. Today the cased examples in bright pop art primary colours are the most sought after and the larger sizes can fetch a couple of hundred pounds, but I love the way the light reflects through these more affordable clear pieces.
They are available from Retro-ware at the Warwick Antiques Centre.
