70s House: A bold homage to the most daring decade in design

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She believes this was also a time when people valued what they had as opposed to the throwaway culture of modern Britain, where nine million tonnes of furniture are chucked into landfill or incinerated every year. Who better to ask than Estelle Bilson, of Estelle Bilson Creative's deeply covetable velvet furnishings and owner/curator of our dream home (photographed by the amazing Molly Major), as spotted on our IG feed this week.

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The 1970s had an element of fun and my interiors prediction for the coming year is for lots of colour and frivolity,’ she said. Following the 2014 iCloud leak, which saw private pictures of celebrities emerge, it became known by many as The Fappening.Additionally, she is the owner of Estelle Bilson Creative, who joined The Bidding Room on October 20, 2020, and appeared on the show’s second season. Everything else in her home - from the disco balls in the toilet, to the original magazines near her space-inspired TV set - are all from the 70s. Since moving into her three-bed semi in Stretford five years ago, the mum-of-one decided to take her obsession to the next level. I'm a bit like a kitsch magpie; anything really random, gold, shiny, multi coloured and the weirder the better. Every Saturday evening, a suburban street in Greater Manchester bears witness to a peculiar sight: at the first-floor bay window of a 1930s semi, top-hatted heads bow over a platter of Victoria sponge slices, silhouetted against the sepia light of a gasoline lamp.

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When asked about the motivations that led to her retro immersion, Bilson’s answer is straight out of Wildschut’s personal nostalgia playbook.Her house is a nostalgic homage to the era, filled with glorious original furniture and vintage artefacts. But many of the people I interviewed [for her PhD] talked about the inspirational socialism of the postwar era: the founding of the NHS, for example, or the pursuit of the common good.