Retro Forever

Surface View Blog / 07 Sep 2014
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As all things vintage continue to be a major influence in every area of modern life, from fashion and hair styles, to music and classic cars, Retro Forever explores the appeal of the Midcentury era and beyond.

In our postmodern age, the trends of the yesteryear still influence today’s movers and shakers and are reinterpreted for new generations. Celebrating our heritage and our eccentricities, Retro Forever has a mood of warmth and wit that is at once familiar and bold with a bright palette or oranges, yellows and blues, toned down by earthy browns.

P&O Heritage collection encapsulates the excitement of travelling; the company’s advertising posters are a master class in graphic design that has stood the test of time. Kitsch reins supreme in the Land of Lost Content and Vintage Festival collections, curated by retro pop-culture collector Stella Mitchell and vintage guru Wayne Hemingway.

Tongue-in-cheek and full of knowing references to decades past, these archives see ephemera from the fifties, sixties and seventies reinvented for a style savvy generation. The saturated colours of our new John Hinde Postcard collection offer a rose-tinted view of the past that’s hard not to love.

Pattern and print is key to the trend, too; we’ve rediscovered prints by Sir Terence Conran and his design studio Conran Fabrics - these fresh and graphic repeats remain as contemporary and stylish as ever. 

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