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THE HOME OF GOOD IDEAS

100 YEARS OF

APRIL ISSUES

Group Chief Sub-editor Sarah Farley picks her

highlights from Ideal Home through the decades…

In 1968 we were…

CONSIDERING
FUTURE ANTIQUES

Few pieces yell ‘Swinging Sixties!’
louder than Eero Aarnio’s fibreglass
Ball chair. Costing £270 five years
after it first appeared, new ones are
still available from the Finnish
company that bought the rights
to Aarnio’s designs in 2016. The
price in 2020? Just over £5,000.
In 1953
we were...
TREATING

OURSELVES

A bar of Lilac Blossom
scented soap from
Cussons must have
seemed a heavenly
luxury at a time when
many items were
rationed. Cussons was
founded in 1938 and is
still based in Salford.

In 1968 we were...

ADDING A VIVID SPLASH OF COLOUR

Colourfast fabric dyes made the late 1960s

a very bright place to be. Although, as ever
in Ideal Home, practicality had a place, too –

among these ‘glowing’ tangerine and hot pink

towels and bath mats is one that ‘looks like a

dog towel but does an excellent job of drying’.

In 1957 we were…
In 2002 we were…
MIXING NEW WITH OLD
GETTING ONLINE ‘The Spice of Harmonious Contrasts’ could

Were you on the ’net in 2002? be a feature heading from 2020 because
Girobank offered to donate we’re still putting modern and antique
to national Wildlife Trusts furniture together and enjoying the
when customers signed up results. These delicate line drawings
to its bill payment service, show a Regency desk with a wirework chair
avoiding the environmental and a Finmar chair next to a Hepplewhite
impact of the average 450 sofa; the Formica-topped coffee tables are
miles a cheque would travel. the only pieces that now seem jarring.

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