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In 1995 CELEBRATING
In 1980 we were… YEARS
we were…
GETTING INTO CRAFT
PAINTING THE
‘It’s a rewarding way to relax, cheaper than a
psychiatrist and healthier than smoking,’ Ideal Home BATHROOM FLOOR
informed its readers. The giant of colour and pattern In sky blue and yellow – surely
Kaffe Fassett was getting started and cosying up with the colour combo of the 1990s
one of his needlepoint kits was mindfulness ’80s style – you can only admire the
(and, you know, less likely to kill you than smoking). intricacy of this floor, especially
when you know it was intended
for two teenage boys…

In 1939 we were…

CONSIDERING AN AGA COOKER

No need to light it every morning and no soot-covered
kitchen – that’s the joy of a clean, efficient Aga, invented
in Sweden in 1922 and on sale in the UK since 1929.
Not long after this the British government ordered Agas
for hospitals, munitions works and feeding centres.

In 1975
we were...

GOING METRIC

The ad below, showing
the vital statistics of
an ‘average’ family, was
issued by the Metrication
Board to ease the
population into parting
with inches and pounds In 1957
in favour of centimetres we were…
and kilos, mainly to help BUYING FABRIC
with industrial exports.
Unlike with decimalisation AT HEAL’S
four years earlier (when The furnishing company
we ‘changed the money was hitting its mid-century
round’, as Max Bygraves stride with abstract fabric
sang), some imperial designs. On the left is
units are still in use, Daffodil by Mary Moran,
most obviously the miles now part of the V&A’s
on our road signs. textile collection, while
Paule Vézelay, designer of
the fabric on the right, is
better known as an artist
whose works are in the Tate.

In 1947 we were…

ADMIRING CELEBS’ HOMES

Ideal Home visited the peaceful

Sussex retreat of Miss Deborah

Kerr,justbeforetheMay1947

releaseofPowell&Pressburger’s

extraordinaryBlack Narcissus.

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