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retrocurious

I detest cheap sentiment

About Me

A wannabe purveyor of mid century style with a deep enthusiasm for all things vintage.I have an unhealthy obsession for vintage chairs, and am under strict instruction to stop this hoarding. But hang on, you can never have too many places to sit when having a cocktail party now can you?I enjoy Gin and Tonics and a chilly glass of Champagne.Give me friends, fab food, a suitable beverage and fasten your seatbelts for it could well be a bumpy night.

My Interests

Mid-Century furniture and design---preparing meals for my loved ones---throwing swingin' soirees---stencil and screen print art

I'd like to meet:

friends and foes lovers and fighters and the odd saint or sinner..

Music:

Groove Armada - PJ Harvey - Howling Bells - Julie London - Wicked Beat Sound System - Massive Attack - Air - Sergio Mendes - Tori Amos - Morcheeba - Magic Dirt - The Cat Empire - Bob Marley - The White Stripes - Ben Harper - Everything But The Girl - Moloko - The Dandy Warhols - Propellorheads - The Sleepy Jackson - Curtis Mayfield - Dave Brubeck - Moby - Luscious Jackson - Jurassic Five - Fleetwood Mac - The Hives - Burt Bacharach - Mazzy Star - The Black Sorrows

Movies:

All About Eve - The Party - Cleopatra - North by Northwest - Stage Door - Cleopatra Jones + Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold - Happy Endings - Frida - Raise the Red Lantern - Love and Other Catastrophes - The Trouble With Harry - My Summer of Love - 1960's Bond flicks - 50 ways of saying Fabulous -The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Jackie Brown

Books:

On the Road by Jack Kerouac---The Secret History by Donna Tartt---Anything by Tom Robbins---Everything on 20th century design and decorative art(especially those published by Taschen)---Not Quite Straight by Jeffrey Smart---Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis---Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Heroes:

Katherine Hepburn---Elizabeth Taylor---Lauren Bacall---Charles and Ray Eames---Grant Featherston--Frank Lloyd Wright---Marion Hall Best---My Mum---My Grandparents---Florence Broadhurst---Shirley Maclaine---Marcel Breuer---Ruth Cracknell - Pam Grier - Frida Kahlo