Estelle first became famous for her appearance on the television show The Bidding Room. Moreover, she is known to be one of the dealers of the show ‘The Bidding Room.’ You can find more about her after you watch the TV show. Estelle said: 'There's something about the 70s that's so evocative to me' Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

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He works for Morgan Evans & Co (where was his first job as a salesroom assistant) and he is now the senior auctioneer and a director of the firm.collection, and revolutionised modernist furniture design. The style works well in both retro and modern interiors(Picture: Ilex Press) Apart from the fun, Estelle also believes there is a serious point to make about sustainability. ‘People talk about “fast fashion”, but 23 million tonnes of furniture goes into landfill in this country each year so we should also be looking at “fast furniture” with new eyes.

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Steve, my partner already owned it and I kinda moved in. However, I did love the house at first sight. It has a lovely warm feeling to it and it is in a lovely neighbourhood. We overlook a park and it feels very village-like for Manchester.’ (image credit: Estelle Bilson) I don’t wish I lived in the 50s. I love vintage style, not vintage values. When I’m reading magazines from that period, some of the adverts are so archaic. It’s all about buying the woman in your life a vacuum cleaner for Christmas. But I couldn’t live in modern surroundings, either. This trend for grey at the moment – I can’t bear it. Everything is grey. People are even painting the exterior of their houses grey! I need colour in my life. Buy with your gut instinct. If you love something, buy it. I’ve bought random items for very little that have turned out to be valuable.Mid Century Modern was a term coined into the vernacular in 1983 by Cara Greenberg with the title of her seminal book, this moniker has become an ionic and global design movement. Focusing on the style of interiors, furniture, architecture, surface print and graphic design from the mid 30s to 60s but has now generally been stretched out to encompass the period of up to 1975, the legacy of these pieces is of enduring design which still looks as fresh and as relevant now as it did then, this is why it works so well with contemporary living and the reason it has become hugely popular. I loved the 70s - and that's both the 1970s and the 1870s. There's obviously always something about a decade that starts with a seven… Many regard the 1970s as the decade that taste forgot. Not Estelle Bilson, though. Her house is a nostalgic homage to the era, filled with glorious original furniture and vintage artefacts. Estelle has designed her own wallpapers in an homage to her favourite design decade (Image: Estelle Bilson) We have always been fairly boring with our decor, on the pretext that the next occupier would not share our taste etc. In our current house we went all out to have wallpaper and the colours that we really want, not considering anyone else’s taste is cathartic!

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We do get children pointing and laughing’: Michael Koropisz in his bedroom at his parents’ house in Greater Manchester. Photograph: Alex Telfer/The Observer Airing on weekdays at 4.30 pm on BBC One, The Bidding Room features a cast of dealers who go head-to-head in a bid to buy extraordinary items from the public.

I wanted to do more and when I saw a mirror at the car boot I went onto designing the hallway with super graphics.

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Surrounded by antiques growing up, Estelle was raised by a father who made cabinets and collected antiques. Following in his footsteps, she has become a TV sensation who offers her expertise when it comes to valuable treasure. Part interiors guide, part manual for living, this loud-and-proud book will bring not only 70s colour and kitsch to the modern day, but also the rebellious spirit, pure joy and freewheeling energy epitomised by the era. Everything from the disco balls in the toilet, to the original magazines near her space-inspired TV set - are all from the 70s (Image: Alex Cousins / SWNS)WHERE DID YOU FIRST DISCOVER THE WORK OF VLADIMIR TRETCHIKOFF AND WHAT WAS IT ABOUT HIS PIECES THAT FIRST CAPTURED YOUR IMAGINATION AND STILL INSPIRES YOU TODAY? Surrounded by Georgian and Victorian furniture growing up, she went down a different route. By 13, the dealer became fascinated by anything from 20s and 30s art deco, to post-war atomic design and post-modernist 60s and 70s. In the unlikely event of winning the lottery, I’d love to be in a position where I could afford to keep this house for our son and buy a more modernist/1970s home to restore to its former glory. This house has such a lot of memories for us, as Steve has owned it for nearly 20 years. I would be very content if this was to be our forever home as the area is lovely.’ (image credit: Estelle Bilson) Our research shows that loneliness and social isolation trigger nostalgia. Nostalgia, in turn, increases perceived social connectedness and support. Viewed in this way, nostalgia offsets the negative effects of loneliness.” Living history offers a dual pay-off, forming our self-hood as it swaddles us in the psychological comfort blanket of an imagined past. Britons have long enjoyed vintage dress-up: 50s teddy boys based their style on Edwardian street gangs; men born long after D-Day still gather to reenact the battles of both world wars. What’s new are people who, like Koropisz, commit to living their lives as if the intervening 40, 50 or 130 years never happened – as well as the communities that have grown around vintage lifestyles. The latter include online interest groups, such as the #tradwife movement; weekends themed for everything from 50s dancing to the lifestyle of the world wars and subsequent years (the War and Peace Revival attracted 50,000 attendees for its fourth outing in 2019); and the grand Victorian balls that are the highlight of Koropisz’s year. It's also very budget friendly, if you know where to find the bargains" (Image: Alex Cousins / SWNS)