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Pad: The Guide to Ultra-Living
filled with hip, affordable projects for every room in the house and shows how to use
basics like lighting, plants, mirrors, and paint to enhance even problem areas. If you
like over the top decor, wild and groovy pads, and truly outrageous ideas then this
might be the book for you. The decor is imaginative, wild, eclectic and truly original.
It inspires you to look past the traditional and ordinary to create your own style
crazy interiors and cool design. There are design ideas for every room of your home
including the living room, bedroom, office, bathroom, patio and entertainment room.
Throughout the book over 20 different homes and the owners share their design
ideas and tastes with the reader. The homes reflect the owners' own unique
personal style. There is an office decorated with wall-to-ceiling zebra prints, a
bathroom featuring walls covered with cheap toys, and both a bathroom and
bedroom come alive with psychedelic colors. There are a few more moderate rooms
like a postmodern living room and a Moroccan style guest room. People either love it
or hate it. This book is for kitsch fanatics, art freaks, and people with a little bit of
punk rock in their soul - This is not for the mild or the tame or the weak of heart.

Kitsch Deluxe
It's tacky, it's glam, it's Vegas, it's fun, it's so many different things. From Elvis to Big Eyed Art to Jayne Mansfield to Barbie and Barbarella, this book will help you discover those areas of bad taste that you wish to explore. The lavish pictures are in your face,from the truly hideous to the divine, lush cool cocktail lounge style to trailer park treasure.

Retro Revamp: Funky Projects, from Handbags to Housewares
This is a fun book for anyone who fondly remembers wild Sixties style.Thanks to Retro Revamp's fun-filled ideas,
you can turn anything so-so into so, so fabulous. Filled with gorgeous, full-color photographs, and decorated throughout with bright, nostalgic collage art and illustrations, this book is a treasure in itself. The projects inside range from necklaces to nightlights. 39 DIY projects - clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, décor items and toys. The materials used are just as varied and the style is colorful. Depending on your taste you could call it anything from modern folk art to tacky trash.

Op to Pop : Furniture of the 1960's
Whether it's a lipstick-red love seat shaped like Marilyn Monroe's lips, a bean bag chair,
or a "domestic capsule unit," 1960s furniture still has the power to startle and delight.
In Op to Pop furniture design, explores in detail the roots of and influences on '60s
design, from space travel to Pop Art. The best part of this book is the resource guide
in the back which lists: every state's vintage furniture shops, current manufacturers
of pop furniture, auctions carrying 60's vintage furniture, and a list of pop art-centered
web sites. - great look at 60's style and culture

Furniture and Interiors of the 1960s
Resource for any 1960s enthusiast who seeks to recreate this innovative, and once
again extremely cool look in their own retro home. Think plastic. Think inflatable PVC
chairs and TV tables. It must be the 1960s, when radical furniture designs "popped" next to new art, traditional designs were recast with new materials, and the results were often mixed in one room.

Funky Fabrics of the '60s
The wide range of sixties fabric designs reflected the transition from the comforting tranquility of the early years
to the bolder, more "hip" end of the decade. Funky Fabrics of the 60s takes you on a nostalgic tour of pastel and splashy florals, patchwork calicos, denims and stripes, wild abstract geometrics, and neon paisleys. Whether you admired Jackie Kennedy's elegant style or danced barefoot in a peasant dress as a "flower child", this full color
book with hundreds of designs will bring back memories of a unique time.

Cool Hot Colors: Fabrics of the Late 1960s
"Cool" colors were hot for fabrics in the late 1960s. The youth of the day wore hot pinks and purples, chartreuse, orange, and yellow. Sometimes called neon colors, these cool hot colors were often combined into wild and psychedelic floral and geometric designs. Hundreds of splashy colors and designs from actual 1960s European and American textile manufacturers' sample books are photographed and displayed with full
descriptions and fabric content information. This book takes the '60s enthusiast on a
magical ride to an era of outrageous artistic expression.

Retro Home
Create the look step by step guide for the home decorator or a retro lover. Remember
the oh-so-daring conversation pits and shag pile carpets? You will see all those and
more in this unique sourcebook of retro design. This is the first book o show you how
to create the retro look. Each era features a guide to the trends of the times,
followed by advice on re-creating the look. Choose from the arty bohemia of the
1910s, the chic 20s of the flappers, the elegant Art Deco styles of the 30s and 40s,
or the modernism of the 50s. Those who prefer a more modern look can choose
between the dazzling Pop Art of the 60s, the penthouse cosmopolitan 70s, the
Post-modern eclectic 80s, or 90s loft living. Whatever your style, there is a scheme
for you among this revealing collection of stunning retro homes.

50s & 60s Style
For anyone intersted in style, the history of design of a pop decade.

Decorative Art 1960's
Offers a glimpse into the design world of the 1960s. Many vintage photos showing
furniture in authentic room settings. Sections of Glass, Ceramics, Lighting, Textiles
and Furniture.

Modern Retro - Living With Mid-Century Modern Style
Covers interior styles from the Art Deco period to the 1970s to help you achieve the
modern retro look - living rooms, kitchens, work rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms,
decorating with furniture, lighting and accessories.

Swingin' Chicks of the 60's
colorful, groovy 60's flowers inside and out - great coffee-table book. Barbara Eden - it's worth picking up just for that... discovering chicks you never knew about, or chicks you had only seen before but never found out their name. You liked that chick in the Elvis Movie Spinout, the tomboy drummer who fell for him? Here's everything you ever wanted to know about Deborah Walley (filed under "the beach girls" section of the book). The 60's chicks are diced up into categories, The Beach Girls, The Bond Beauties, The Elvis Girls! Girls! Girls!, The Look, The Movie
Stars (a section for the all-americans such as Stella Stevens and another section for the British invasion) The
TV Stars. If you're at all into 60's pop culture, even mildly interested, this book is worth picking up. If you're
really into 60's pop culture, you probably already have it.

The Mini-Mod Sixties Book
The 1960s was a revolutionary time not only in action and spirit but also in fashion. Filled with color photos,
this book looks at 1960s youth culture through the hippest clothes of the day - covers everything from Day-Glo
to daisies, with special emphasis on the miniskirt and go-go boots. Top models and actresses, from Twiggy to Stefanie Powers, display the most outrageous styles of the time.

Groovy Movies: Far-out Films of the Psychedelic Era
This book is so Groovy! If you lived through the Psychedelic era

Beatles - Beatlemania
a very rich collection of every Beatles story, hundreds of full color pictures,
anecdotes, just everything that was "the Beatles".

Pink Panther
Pink Panther - one suave, cool animated cat - designed with a retro look for his
premier in the 60s. Meet the Pink Panther - for parents who remember him with
humor from their childhood and for children who can’t help but be impressed by
the character of cool. He's smooth. He’s suave. He's Pink Panther. This hip cat first
appeared in the opening credits of the 1964 Blake Edwards film, The Pink Panther.

The Art of Shag
Blending cartoon, tiki aesthetic, and vintage illustration - Josh Agle - more commonly known as Shag. His style is truly unique and his artwork definitely putsyou in a retro-lounge kind of mood. His hip and funky cool art trademark style is spotted on everything from cocktail napkins, greeting cards, t-shirts, CD covers, gift wrap, cigarette lighters to his brand identity work for the new Pink Panther film. Shag's retro world of art includes Jet Setting, Tiki, Mythology, Astrology, Adam & Eve and more. Wasp-waisted women in Capri pants with turtlenecked tops with eye-patched men of mystery hosting parties and siping martinis.