Retro and the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s
Retrowow is an online resource about retro style and the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. This site is packed with information about retro furniture, retro fashion and retro style. We also have articles about life in Britain in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, as well as guides to the style of these four decades and discussions of life in the past.
We have also moved bang up to date with a look at how retro influences modern products.
Fantastic new Trimphones from Retrowow
We've loved the Trimphone for many years, but old phones can be unreliable. Now you can buy a fantastic modern Trimphone, that is almost a perfect replica.
Wild and Wolf Trimphones from RetrowowBy the author of this web site The G-Plan Revolution
Retro living rooms
Retrowow helps you create the perfect retro living room, with inspiration from the past and products you can buy today.
Retro toys and games
Rediscover your past with retro toys and games. We look at toys from the past that you can still buy today.
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Mad Men era - the cars
Retrowow gets behind the wheel of gas guzzling V8s from the Mad Men era. Check out Mad Men era cars
Motorola 8000X
With eBay prices seemingly climbing, is the Motorola 8000X a hot investment? Read our collectors' guide to the world's first mobile phone: Motorola 8000X
Woodstock Festival 1969
It is 40 years since the Woodstock Festival. Retrowow reviews the event and asks if it was the beginning of something new.
Retro sunglasses
Enjoy what's left of the British Summer in a cool pair of retro sunglasses. Check out our guide Retro sunglasses
Retrowow on retro marketing
Retro style and retro branding are increasingly important in modern products. We look at how modern brands have taken the look and feel of retro in our new retro marketing feature.
We've never sold furniture on Retrowow before
We are now offering a few pieces from G-Plan and other leading furniture brands from the 50s and 60s in excellent original condition. If you want to be assured that your retro furniture is genuine, buy from us. Check out this fantastic G-Plan sideboard in teak, right.
Featured retro object:
Phoenixphone
The Phoenixphone is a star of several TV dramas set in the 70s. In fact is was from the hard edge world of the early 80s - the programme makers got it wrong.
Previous retro objects:
Baracuta G9 Harrington
Push button Trimphone
Roberts RT1 Radio
Filofax
Spirograph
70s LED watch
Soda syphon
Pyrex
Ronson Varaflame
Aqua Manda
Retro clocks
Kenwood Chef
For retro objects that captured the spirit of their times, see Retro collectibles
Special feature: how to buy retro furniture
Retro furniture is as popular as ever. Read our unique guide on how to get genuine retro bargains.
New feature: Parker Knoll
Special feature: motorway services in the 60s
In the 60s, motorway services were novel and glamorous. They offered fine dining and relaxed facilities.
Special feature: classic 60s sports cars
Which was best: MGB or Triumph TR4, Austin Healey Sprite or Triumph Spitfire? Read our guide to classic sports cars of the sixties, based what the motoring press thought at the time.
Classic 60s sports carsRetro sideboards
Sideboards are making a comeback. In the sixties, the classic Scandinavian style sideboard in teak or rosewood was a status symbol in the modern home. Sideboards are gaining popularity in new contemporary or retro style furniture, as well as original furniture from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
G-Plan is cool
A few years ago, the original G-Plan furniture from the fifties, sixties and seventies was considered little more than junk. It is now firmly back in fashion. Selfridges have opened a small department selling G-Plan and everyone is talking about it.
On Retrowow we've always thought G-Plan was great. We've celebrated the return of G-Plan with a new book The G-Plan Revolution which describes the G-Plan phenomenon - how G-Plan transformed the British furniture industry in the sixties as much as the Beatles transformed the pop music theme. See G-Plan
G-Plan Revolution
We are delighted to announce that 'The G-Plan Revolution' won the Wallpaper* Magazine Design Awards 2008 Best Library Award.
Your town in the 60s:
Retrowow looks around the country at town centres in the 60s. 60s architecture is surprisingly still unpopular. 50s, 60s and 70s buildings are still being destroyed. May be you loved your town in the 60: you might have had a favourite pub or coffee bar. Let us know...
Retro products
The ultimate retro mobile phone: Introducing the Poratatronic Systems Portable Executive Telephone from 1968.
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