Object of the day: Slim Aarons photography made affordable

I have previously lusted here over Slim Aarons' gloriously glamorous seventies photography. 

But have never been able to afford it... until now.

Just when I thought digital wall print experts, Surface View, couldn't get any more exciting (you may have seen my breathless post about their John Hinde range a few months back), they pull another corker out of the bag: yes, now you can get your mitts on one of these babies for as little as £60.

 

So, for £60 you can get a poster version of one of the prints, while wall murals are priced at £60 per square metre. Canvas prints and birch ply prints start at £145 and £175 respectively. Check out the full range at Surfaceview.co.uk

SCP's sexy wooden alarm clock

Is this not the sexiest alarm clock you've seen in ages? That probably depends on whether you're into Seventies design or not... As regular readers may have, ahem, clocked, I'm rather partial.

This beautiful beast costs £36 and is available from hot London design store, SCP (not online, unfortunately). Look closely and you'll see that the clever design, by Jonas Damon, incorporates an iPhone or iPod Touch to display the time (using a flip clock app). Slick. And annoying, as it's yet another reason that I'm cursing myself for getting an idiotically large Samsung Galaxy SII instead of an iPhone. Pff.

So for now, I'll have to make do with my actual old-school Binatone (below)... it gets Radio 4 and Vibes FM, what more do I need?

A folksy, Seventies interior

I love the look of this thrift-shop, Seventies-tinged US home, featured on the brilliant Etsy blog.

Bentwood chairs are very much part of that Art Nouveau look revived in the Seventies along with the likes of Aubrey Beardsley and William Morris. And they look great with the bold, black hint-of-stone-cladding partition, don't they?

Totally love the crowded gallery wall, too, and the 1940s naive/folk art horse painting, and the sweet porcelain birds and heavy industrial desk-light.

Get the look: for fabulous but faux wall finishes, I do urge retrophiles and contemporary-heads alike to check out Dreamwall. I have a mini crush on this webshop and dream of emboldening one of my own walls in one of its wares. For vintage nick-nacks online of this ilk, try the OK Corral, run by photographer Holly Joliffe. Reassuringly affordable, and like a flea market minus all the tat no one wants. You can buy Aubrey Beardsley and William Morris prints at the V&A shop.