70s House: A bold homage to the most daring decade in design

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Britons have long enjoyed vintage dress-up: 50s teddy boys based their style on Edwardian street gangs; men born long after D-Day still gather to reenact the battles of both world wars. I’m a mum and I can’t swan around in a Jean Varon maxidress if there’s a four-year-old trying to smear yoghurt on me. As children we would accompany my Father to auctions and car boot sales (always told to sit on our hands in case we accidentally bid on something) you have a couple of options when this happens, you either get bored really quickly or you start collecting yourself.

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Upholstery designer Estelle even matches the house with her clothing tastes, drawing inspiration from fashion label of the decade, Biba. 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. We don't live slavishly like it is 1974 but we appreciate the styling, design and quality of build of the furniture. She had never appeared on television until being approached by show producers, who asked her to audition in June 2020 for series two.

Ernie Samat, 54, graduated to vintage living through the war reenactment scene, where he dressed as a Second World War RAF officer, to his current civilian style: three-piece tweeds, with a silk handkerchief (“strictly top left pocket”) and brogues. Surrounded by mainly Georgian and Victorian furniture all my life, by the age of 13 I guess I rebelled somewhat, fascinated by anything from the art deco period of the 20s and 30s, to post war atomic design, through the post-modernist 60s and 70s. If you can’t face the whole look, bold retro wallpaper on the bedhead wall in a bedroom will provide vintage interest instantly. A serial collector, firstly of fashion and accessories, astutely amassing large collections of vintage handbags, clothing and powder compacts which were found for pennies during the 90s to more recently furnishing our home entirely in my fantasy of how I would have decorated it during the 70s.

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When it comes to soft furnishing, then bright bold graphics, florals and sumptuous velvets are the only way forward for a true 70s vibe. So, thank goodness resplendent 70s temptress Estelle Bilson has committed pen to paper so that the world can enjoy her take on the era of soft squares, teak, shag and Artex. Estelle studied fashion at college before cutting her teeth with brands such as Aquascutum and in Savile Row. In Laura Wade’s 2019 Olivier award-winning play, Home, I’m Darling, protagonist Judy becomes disillusioned by her office job and takes voluntary redundancy to devote herself to living like a 1950s housewife.I remember walking into a friend’s house when I was about 19 and everything was styled like the 50s: there was a cocktail bar and 50s magazines. Some structural work was carried out, making the dining room smaller, the kitchen a little bigger, new windows, plastering and landscaping outside. Eavesdroppers might even catch the strains of Gilbert and Sullivan issuing from an 1890s gramophone as Michael Koropisz, a 24-year-old portrait artist who goes about his daily life as if he’s a well-to-do Briton of the 1890s, stages a tea party for fellow Victorian enthusiasts.

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Samat has stripped the fireplace in his Wanstead sitting room back to its Arts and Crafts surround and installed a chaise longue and period display cabinets. But the washing machine is covered with a curtain and the toaster is in a cupboard under the worktop. Sinclair also experimented with military wear before settling upon a 40s three-piece suit, trilby and pipe. When asked about the motivations that led to her retro immersion, Bilson’s answer is straight out of Wildschut’s personal nostalgia playbook. Don’t shy away from chairs or sofas, your friendly local upholsterer can help you create something beautiful that is bespoke to you.In our current house we went all out to have wallpaper and the colours that we really want, not considering anyone else’s taste is cathartic! I’d love to work with David Downton and reproduce the series of images he did for the female protagonists in Mad Men, which were illustrated in the style of Bob Peak, a genuine Madison Ave Man.