Links

Welcome to our links section!

This is where we hook you up with some of our personal favourites - websites, characters, or whatever catches our eye from time to time - all under a very broad interpretation of the term 'Vintage Style'.  It's a little more about fun and less about furnishing, but we hope you enjoy it !

P.S. Feel free to suggest your own pet links too. :)

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The Best of the Best - get an insight into the iconic designers of the 20th Century -

http://designmuseum.org/design

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Madmen - Photo album - because we love seeing our kind of style so beautifully delivered on screen.

http://blogs.amctv.com/photo-galleries/mad-men-season-1-episode-photos/episode-1-don-1.php

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All you need to know about the Saturday Fashion Market on our very own Cows Lane, with details on each new Irish designer involved. This site also gives you a good overview of the many regular market, family and arts events that happen all year round in Dublin's Temple Bar.

http://www.templebar.ie/home_nav_32_m_3.html

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If you don't know this one already Cats & Kittens (& rockin' dawgs too!), it's about time you did. Dublin's very own Amsterdam beatclub. If you love to DRESS 20th Century vintage, and want to groove, swing, rock, bump, grind & go go go; check it out!

http://www.amsterdambeatclub.nl/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amsterdam-Netherlands/Amsterdam-Beat-Club/94497251119?v=wall&viewas=774892928

http://www.myspace.com/amsterdambeatclub

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The famous Vitro Design Museum - much beloved of architects and modernist fans in general.

http://www.design-museum.e/museum/besucherinfo/inex.php

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Here's an oddball one for all the people who have come into the shop and fallen in love with our wooden tv. A photo site completely devoted to excellent and highly creative pictures of (mostly vintage) televisions!  

http://www.flickr.com/groups/tvroom/pool/

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A little bit of background about those likable Eames' :

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/charles-ray-eames

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Ok, going to stretch that vintage style definition a bit. Zippo lighters are an American design classic that has barely changed a fraction since 1933. And about a nano-second after they went on sale, it seems there came a host of quick-handed zippo tricks to master. This youtube video gives you a quick tutorial on just one - 'the Ghost Flame' a.k.a. 'twilightzone'. But be careful - you'll be trying it at your own risk!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSE9q9_gKw&feature=fvw

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As always, more to come . .