One of the most noticeable trends of the 1960s was the idea that you could make more use of the rooms in your house if you improved access to them by getting rid of the interfering doors, walls and windows.
The idea was to open the house out thus making access to the various living spaces easier. Where most houses had been built with separate rooms, each divided one from another by a door and a wall, it was thought desirable to remove as many of these as possible thus opening out the space and making access from one living area to another quick and easy and, in many cases, merging the spaces together.
Following on from my thoughts about incorporating some of the best ideas of the 1960s and 50s into modern meals, the next essential you need is a good vintage cook book.
No one would want to go back to a 1960s (or worse a 1950s) kitchen with its primitive appliances and lack of storage but perhaps vintage cooking is about combining the best of the old with the convenience of the new.
Suddenly I’m knee-deep in vintage fairs – from nowhere I have a long list of fairs to tell you about! All these four fairs take place on Sunday November 13th in the Northern half of the UK
OK, this is short notice I know but there is a Vintage Fair being held this Saturday 5 November 2011 (yes, bonfire night!) and it looks like it might be a good one to attend.
In the 1960s groups of Mods, as they were now calling themselves, began to link up into what could be described as a coherent movement. As they gathered together they sought new ways to identify themselves in a changing and, in Britain at least, uncertain world. A major and lasting part of this was to create their own lifestyle and, with it, their own music.