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1960's and 1970's

	There are 20 dollhouse wallpapers to choose from in the 1960's-1970's category. If you find a wallpaper you like,click on the sample to bring up a full page. The 1960s were all free love, flower power and pop music but, as the saying goes, if you remember it, you weren't there. The previous decade's love of American design was replaced, as Swinging London became the centre of all things groovy The modernism of past decades had rejected historical influences so, in a spirit of rebellion, 1960s plundered the past for inspiration. The result is a ragbag of styles culled from all over, including Victorian and Edwardian, the 1920s and art nouveau. But it was not just about replicating past styles; everything was given an irreverent twist to make it all its own. Style Plastic and PVC disposable, throwaway multi-purpose furniture low-level revivalist fun, witty Influences art nouveau - the whiplash lines and stylised flower shapes were revived in the 1960s and metamorphosed into psychedelia space age - capsule and pod-shaped furniture travel - ornaments, rugs and anything brought back from hippy pilgrimages to India and especially Morocco cinema - the line between fantasy and reality is blurred as rooms were based on film sets; scenes from films such as Help! and Barbarella were recreated in magazines like House and Garden, showing readers how to get the look. from BBC.UK Click here to see a good photograph of a 1970'shome decorating flcker.com

POP ART and OP ART

Pop art and op art both had a firm footing in the 1960s. Artists such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney with their pop art references to mass culture (soup cans, comic strips, images of icons like Marilyn Monroe) crossed over into interiors, and on to murals, wallpaper and posters. Similarly, op art with its use of pattern and colour to simulate movement found its way on to everything from furniture to wallpaper. Artists such as Bridget Riley, who works predominantly in black and white, became the vogue. Whether you choose the hippy ethnic look or plastic space age, it will be far out.

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Fads & Fashions of the 1970's

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Get the Look

Open plan - make your house as open plan as possible. Use sliding doors and moveable screens to partition off rooms; one room should flow into another.
Wood - is disregarded for furniture but pine is used to panel walls and particularly ceilings. Use tongue and groove and leave it unpainted for a sauna room feel.
Floors - you've got to have a shag pile rug - the bigger the better.
Colours - go for vibrant colours such as bright red, purple. Deliberately clash colours, for example, team tangerine orange with fuchsia pink. Black-and-white is also a typical colour scheme.
Furniture - go for plastic or transparent blow-up furniture. Choose 'S' and egg shapes, and anything that looks futuristic and space age. Pick up junk shop furniture, especially bamboo and wicker items, from any period, and paint it in bright colours. Flat pack furniture was also a 1960s phenomenon.
Wallpaper - must be psychedelic - look for vinyls in reds, purples, oranges with swirls and paisley patterns.

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