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Style Your Modern Vintage Home is an inspirational book for all vintage enthusiasts. It encompasses everything vintage lovers want in one place: every vintage decade, practical tip for buying, styling and restoring your vintage homewares and achieving your perfectly styled vintage home. With 'real' homes, 'real' people and 'real' affordable items, this book shows you how you can achieve a stylish vintage/modern home too.
Each chapter covers a decade from the 1920s to the 1990s, introducing fascinating social history from that period and sub-sections for the living room, bedroom, kitchen, study, hall and even the garden, showing the must-have items. There are practical styling tips, restoration and cleaning tips, and useful watch out advice for buying vintage pieces. As different eras may be mixed, there are also cross references to other chapters.
The final section includes a useful and accessible treasurebox directory with the best vintage traders, both in the UK and US, as well as further reading should you wish to learn more about the topics covered in this book.
Foreword by UK singer and actress, Paloma Faith, a vintage style icon both in the UK and US.
Contents
Contents
Foreword by US contributor
Introduction
What is vintage? Why buy vintage?
Introduce the decades covered. Aims of the book - focus on its practical nature.
1. 1920s/30s
- Introduction
to the period, prosperity after war, Wall Street Crash and depression
- Lounge: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern lounge e.g. cocktail bar/bar ware/deco styling
- Kitchen: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern kitchen e.g. deco teapot
- Bedroom: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern bedroom e.g. dressing table sets.
2. 1940s - 1950s
- Introduction to the periods,
rationing, war, feeling after war in US/UK, new design, molecular forms, hope,
Festival of Britain
- Lounge: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern lounge e.g. utility furniture (40s), flat pack furniture (50s)
- Kitchen: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern kitchen e.g. enamel ware (40s), fitted kitchens, key accessories (50s)
- Bedroom: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern bedroom e.g. make do and mend, blouses for pillowcases
- Hall: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern hall e.g. telephone
4. 1960s - 1970s
- Introduction to the period, space
race, birth of teenager, package holidays (60s), baby boomers setting up home,
recession (70s)
- Lounge: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern lounge e.g. teak, art glass, rocket lamps (60s), shag pile rugs (70s)
- Kitchen: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern kitchen e.g. pasta jars, pull down lights (60s), brown, soda streams
(70s)
- Bedroom: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern bedroom e.g. dansette record player
- Playroom: practical tips for
buying key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into
your modern playroom e.g. toys/games
6. 1980s - 1990s
- Introduction to
the period, boom, look back to the 50s, US and UK as superpowers, technology,
(80s) recession, look back to 1970s style (90s)
- Lounge:
practical tips for buying key items from the period and practical steps for
integrating them into your modern
lounge e.g. the colour red (80s), crystals (90s)
- Kitchen: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern kitchen e.g. microwave
- Bedroom: practical tips for buying
key items from the period and practical steps for integrating them into your
modern bedroom e.g. velvet
8. Repairing,
restoring and preserving vintage furniture
- Creative ideas
for upcycling e.g. making own curtains
- top tips e.g.
drink rings out of teak, tea stains out of bone china etc
9. Directory
An alphabetical list of the main vintage furniture stockists
to find all the genuine and affordable vintage treasures in the UK, US and
Australia
Index
Picture Credits
Acknowledgements
