Iconic late 20th century design icons
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The V9(Peter) is from the 20th century, used as an aid for posting pictures onto 21st century social media like forums. Very useful after all those years from being first created. Very rare indeed(in fact unique)
A bit rough round the edges but has stood the test of time (to date) but can still be found lurking in the dark recesses of the forum
plying his dubious trade 
v9
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A 1970s Goblin Teasmade with the square teapot, we had one, bit of a lifesaver on cold mornings.
Yes indeed Brue we had one back in the 70,s and as i remember you did,nt need an alarm clock because of the noise it made as the water came to the boil.In the end we took it to a car boot sale and an Australian who was over here on holiday bought it to take
home as he had never seen anything like itv9
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Teasmaid machines on display at the science museum
My parents bought one identical to the one second from the left second hand about 40 years ago Afaik it's still going strong. Funily enough we were talking about teasmaids earlier today they are unbeliably naff, a bit like caravans really. We have always
had one what's there not to like it makes a hot drink to wake to. I have spare ones bought from car boots in the loft just in case.Late 20th century design icons
The early E type jag, not the latter one with the open headlights is a contender.
But the winner is
The Eriba puck
Obviously
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Did you live in a house that had one of these in the kitchen ?
Yes, in my Grandma's house (but her unit was a primrose yellow). Looking at the photo brings back to me a memory off cutting the linen wrapped rind off her cheshire cheese. When I was a teenager I used to visit every night after school to help her when she was too old and frail to cope on her own.
I thought she was old when she fell off a stepladder when she was fifty-five, and she died when she was just less than a year older than me, but in my eyes she was then a very, very old lady (not at all like me in my tight Levis and trendy top, drinking with friends in a local pub this evening!! I was sixteen at the time she died and she was my only living grandparent.
These days we have four grandchildren, and two on the way - and each of them have all their grandparents alive, together with several great grandparents, and one great-great grandparent. (and also a lot of extra 'step grandparents' as is the way these days).
That's one of the things we may be giving as a legacy to our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren - the gift of longevity!
Let them be reminiscing on forums such as this one, in years to come, when everything they have done and said is recorded on the internet somewhere - so there will be no need for ancestrry.com (they'll be able to see it all on their Facebook accounts).
So what will be the design icons of the early part of the 21st century.................!!! Maybe warrants a separate post????
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What a great post Valda and one i can relate to myself as i also only had brief time with my grandparents but now spend many,many hours with my grandchildren and great granchildren in fact i,m just about to leave on my school run with two of the grandchildren.
peter.
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Valda - in an attempt to generate family interest I have set out my memories in the form of a booklet, on my PC, hoping that if my children/grandchildren add theirs, then future generations may have something of personal interest to read. Better than a cold and impersonal DoB and DoD. (Birth/Death)
Imagine in 100 yrs someone exclaiming "did he really break the speed limit on a motorway and get away with it?" Who knows?
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The Trimphone, , available in so many colours, surely the start of the 'design revolution' that affected everything in the home. We were generally happy with hand me down furniture and household goods until the mid-fifties/sixties. Then furniture and household items started to be design statements and everyone just had to have one.
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Just thought of another one - Habitat furniture, and especially the Habitat catalogue! It was an eye opener to be able to look at all the latest trendy furniture, and even order it and have it delivered to your home. We still have some original Habitat dining room chairs, which have been upcycled many times since 1970 when we bought them from the catalogue! They are still available in this link in one of the pages of the catalogue (Photo number 7 on the chairs page) and they are still in my dining room perfectly functional and admired by both my sons and their partners because they are 'vintage'!!!!
It's amazing looking at those pages to see just how many designs have stood the test of time, and there are almost identical products which are still for sale now!
I've just looked further down the page, and also seen a sofa which we had, though ours was covered in Sanderson 'Golden Lilly'! Memories, memories!
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I recognise a few things on Val's Habitat list, I was living in Cornwall and ordered one of their first sofas, everything else in the house was secondhand so to have a real new sofa was wonderful. I had to make a cover for it. I've still got a Habitat hand coffee grinder, a french design, everything french was very novel! I think we also started eating bistro style food in that era, very sophisticated bowls of french onion soup!
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All that G Plan furniture.
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If you were well off in the 60,s your mum might have had one of these
I bought one in the early 70's. It's still going strong for my daughter. I only gave it away when I won one in a raffle at work About 15 years ago. It gets used a lot
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