Wallpaper 80s. Retro style wallpaper

Modern retro - a second wind

Today, wallpaper for retro walls is full of rich colors, trendy tones and interesting prints. But the most important thing is the quality of the materials from which they are made. In the old days, most canvases were made of paper, and very quickly lost their appearance. Now, on the contrary, there are excellent options on a non-woven basis, with a vinyl coating, the colors of which do not fade with time, and the ornament has become more expressive and modern. Therefore, we can openly declare that today's retro is a combination of old ideas with the latest production technologies at the present time.

Antique wallpapers for walls are increasingly used in the creation of classic interiors, since they can most favorably emphasize the features of the furnishings and furniture details.

"SDVK-Wallpaper" - inspiration for new ideas

The online store "SDVK-Wallpaper" presents various collections of antique wallpapers from well-known manufacturers, photos of which can be seen in the catalog in a special section. Here you will see such collections that we ourselves would not refuse to use in our interior.

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20.01.2012

The 80s is a time of experiments, a new vision of life and games with the surrounding space and form. Therefore, the interior of the 80s was distinguished by brightness, pomposity, clear straight lines and expressive decorativeness.

The style of the 80s is extremely complex. It was abandoned very quickly and completely, because the interior, designed in bright colors and large geometric shapes, does not allow the eye to rest and causes constant overexcitation. But today it has suddenly become fashionable in modern rationalistic interior design, where each item carries a certain functional load, to bring sparks of the “frivolous” mischievous style of the 80s. It seems to remind us that our whole life is one big game, and it is full of things that should not be taken too seriously.

To create an interior "a la 80s" you need to remember that:

• In the 80s, brilliant colors were preferred, cheerful shades of green, bright orange, yellow, turquoise.
• Geometric patterns, avant-garde colorful large drawings - stripes, rhombuses or various-sized peas were very popular.
• Wallpapers with a textured surface and bright color combinations were very fashionable. Wallpapers of the same basic color, but with different shapes, were especially chic. For example, one wall may have circles, the second may have pyramids, the third may have rectangles, and the fourth wall may not have a pattern at all, for example, if it is a wall with a window.

In the 80s, you could see a sideboard in almost every apartment, and they were all the same. This miracle served for storing dishes. Some models were equipped with something like a bar, in which various little things were stored. In the 80s, a wall cabinet was considered a special luxury, which was a set of several cabinets adjacent to each other with different purposes. The happy owners of such a piece of furniture believed that they had not lived their lives in vain. The popularity of the wall in the 80s can be compared to the popularity of jeans in the 70s.

Today, creating an interior in the style of the 80s, you will have to make a wall to order. Let it be a modernized copy of the wall of your childhood - with laminated MDF facades, with shiny handles and glass inserts. But on the glass shelves of the sideboard you can put both collectible porcelain, if you have one, and modern dishes of unusual shapes and colors.

In the second case, an additional eclectic effect arises - the familiar and stable form is filled with new modern content. Particularly beautiful in mirror sideboards are dark-colored square dishes, as well as sets of glass colored dishes or dishes with intricate painting and bright patterns.

An obligatory piece of furniture in the style of the 80s should be a dressing table. It can be placed in the bedroom or in the hallway. A tall floor lamp with a fringe was also considered obligatory, which was located by the armchair and served to create a kind of relaxation area when the overhead light was turned off.

Upholstered furniture a la the 80s should be rather bulky with deep and comfortable seats, wide armrests, high or almost invisible legs. The design of sofas and armchairs in the 80s included materials such as wood and iron, and the upholstery was made from harsh tapestry or leather-like materials.

The main decorative elements of the interior of the 80s are mirrors and glass. The decoration of mirrors and glass interior doors with various patterns was considered a special chic. Sandblasted drawings look especially gentle and defenseless, like short-lived and beautiful ice frost. Unlike film frosting, which is very common in modern interiors, sandblasted glass and sandblasted mirrors can create a special atmosphere of authenticity and durability in the interior.

The walls in the 80s were decorated with enlarged photographs, decorated in wide mats. Artistic black-and-white portraits of family members, autumn and winter landscapes, photographs of industrial subjects look especially good. Rectangular frames of different sizes can be placed both on one wall and decorate the walls of the entire room with them.

Creating an interior in the style of the 80s at home, you do not need to strive to recreate it in great detail. A familiar form with new content - stick to just such a reading, and the created interior will be devoid of banality and stylistic restrictions. Today we are not constrained in our possibilities, not limited in our choice of interior items, as in the 80s, and this gives us a great opportunity to teach this energetic and vibrant style in a new way, the way we always wanted in childhood and adolescence. You need to add breadth, air and space to it, then it can become truly modern and chic. After all, what is the style of the 80s? - It's urban chic!

Artyom Dezhurko

We call the furnishings of grandmother's apartments "Soviet furniture": wardrobes with legs, armchairs with wooden armrests, sideboards, trellises, floor lamps, three-arm chandeliers. The name is inaccurate: this furniture is mostly not of Soviet origin. It was made in the countries of the Eastern Bloc: the GDR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania. There was little domestic furniture in Soviet stores.

Spaced cabinet legs, wooden armrests, long cabinets, three-legged coffee tables - this is the style of the 60s. In the 70s and 80s they made other furniture: bulky, legless, fragile, smelling of muck. Soviet furniture of the 60s is worth falling in love with. Furniture from the 70s and 80s, in my opinion, is nothing to love.

The style of the Soviet 60s is the same style that in English is called mid-century modern, mid-century modernism. The same armchairs, floor lamps, the same walnut veneer can be seen in the first seasons of the series Mad Men, where American interiors of the second half of the 50s are reproduced with great accuracy. In the West, this style flourished in the 50s, and in the USSR it spread later, during the Khrushchev thaw.

The style of the 50s has been in big fashion for the last few years. Now this fashion is passing, and I can no longer say: "buy Soviet furniture and you will be in trend." You won't. But there are other reasons to pay attention to it.

This is not Ikea

The Russian furniture market is arranged in such a way that the buyer has little choice. If he is rich, he buys furniture from premium Italian brands. If he is poor, he buys trash in a furniture center on the outskirts. If he is neither rich nor poor, there is only one way - to Ikea. Anger takes when you remember how much good and inexpensive furniture is abroad. They don't bring her here. Or they carry, but sell at the price of Italian premium brands.

So it turns out that no matter what apartment you go into, there is an Ikea everywhere. I want to add variety to the landscape. Grandma's sideboard is one of the few available ways.

She's high quality

As I said, "Soviet" furniture mainly comes from Eastern Europe. For example, from the GDR - the country of the Bauhaus, from the Czech Republic - a country with rich and old traditions of furniture production. This furniture was also sold in Western Europe, and now at Western flea markets you can find things of the same factories and models as in my grandmother's apartment. It is no worse than Western mass-produced mid-century furniture. And why would she be any worse? In the same Europe did.

This is a good design

In the world of postmodernism, where you and I are unlucky to live, it is believed that each object contains several meanings: one directly communicates, hints at the other, and is silent about the third. Things are no longer things, but clots of conflicting information. They seem to be talking to us: “Buy me, I'm prestigious! You can afford me, but the neighbor can't! or “I’m a designer! I was made by a star designer! Limited edition!”

Old things are silent. Designers have designed them with only care that they are strong, comfortable, well proportioned. They do not amuse your pride, do not play with your phobias. They simply exist.

She doesn't clutter
space

Furniture of the 60s was made for typical apartments with two-meter ceilings and narrow doors. Therefore, it is compact and low. Even tables and chair seats at that time began to be made a couple of centimeters lower so that there was more free space above them. For the same reason, the chairs of the 60s have slatted backs, and you can stick your hand under the armrest of the chair. Furniture was made in such a way as to create minimal obstructions to the view: looking over and through it, a person clearly sees the boundaries of the room. This is also helped by high legs, on which all the objects of that era stand: the floor is visible under them.

Under it you can
sweep

Behind the plinths of cupboards and chests of drawers, which have no legs, there has not been a vacuum cleaner for decades, and there lies an amazing, but unpleasant world with rich flora and fauna. The floor under cabinets with legs is easy to keep clean.

She is wooden

Of course, not all. Artificial materials were also used in the 60s, but much less frequently than now. In addition, they say that almost all the poisons have weathered from the 50-year-old chipboard. And you can find items where there is no chipboard at all, entirely made of plywood and boards, with a rich texture of walnut veneer, under a good old varnish (the varnish ages beautifully, becomes more transparent). Can you imagine how much a modern solid wood wardrobe costs?

She's cheap

Most of our fellow citizens are obsessed with the idea of ​​novelty. To live among old things for them is not to respect themselves. Having barely saved up for a new sofa from the March 8 factory, they rush to get rid of the furniture of their ancestors, giving it away for pickup or selling it for an amount much less than the cost of transportation. Sometimes they end up in the trash.

True, now the attitude towards modernist furniture is changing. I think that in five years a grandmother's armchair with wooden armrests in Moscow can only be found in a specialized store. But now, while the market for vintage furniture has not developed, we can still furnish an apartment with good examples of modernist design for 200-500 rubles, bought through private ads.

Photo: Alexey Naroditsky, Artyom Dezhurko

Recall the details that made up the Soviet interior of the 1980s!
Album
This is not the “county young lady’s album” in which guests were forced to write poetry and draw pictures. We're talking about a photo album: certainly with a plush cover, green or crimson, with thick cardboard pages. The corners of the photographs were inserted into the slots. “Here we are in Alupka. And this is in the country. And this is Ninochka going to first grade for the first time. And we were filming in the studio. ” Sometimes I came across photos from my grandmother's funeral, but these post-mortals did not bother anyone.
Library
In those days of total shortage, the book was not only a source of knowledge! The color-matched spines of the signature editions of the classics greatly adorned the Hungarian “wall”. A volume of a detective novel received in exchange for waste paper is a rich gift. Besides, books were a serious investment. A volume of the Strugatskys sold on a rainy day could feed a family for a week!


Homemade preparations
Many had dachas, but storerooms in city apartments most often were not provided. Banks with canned gifts of nature were kept as best they could - under the kitchen tables, and on the windowsills, and at the balcony door. This greatly diversified the interior, and a stocking with a bow on the wardrobe in the bedroom brought a tantalizing touch to the overall atmosphere. Citizens prepared for winter calmly watched a concert dedicated to the Day of Militia on TV.


Wood
“How he equipped a room for himself - a picture! And the carpet he has, and the furniture is also all brand new! And everything is like a tree, a tree ... Girls go well to pieces of wood, ”said one of the heroes of the film“ Old New Year ”. By the way, if anyone is interested in authentic interiors of the 80s, then the film is worth watching. The Soviet bohemia liked the La Russe style: wooden benches and spoons in the kitchens, woodgrain wallpaper, Palekh, Gorodets and Khokhloma paintings. It came out colorful, but how artistic! And the girls running "on the pieces of wood" could sew red polka-dot curtains - this is real chic.


Carpet
An absolutely necessary subject in the geopolitical situation of the 80s. Provided heat and sound insulation of apartments. Short pile carpets with geometric patterns were in vogue. Flowers, deer and the scene of the kidnapping of the bride were considered outdated subjects, more suitable for village and country houses. Even today's youth, spoiled by warm floors, have preserved reverence for the carpet - they call it "His Vorseishstvo" and are willingly photographed against the background.


Chandelier
In the bedroom, let's say a lampshade, in the kitchen - a frosted glass ceiling, but in the "hall" - only a chandelier, and so that cascade, cascade! So it was called - "Cascade". Her pendants were fake crystal, but the price did not bite. Of course, standing in line at the Vlasta store (Moscow), one could also get hold of Czech. But both on fake crystal and on Bohemian, dust accumulated in the same way, and the “pendants” had to be washed one at a time in warm water with the addition of ammonia.


Magnetic recording of sound and video
In 1984, the first Soviet cassette video recorder "Electronics VM-12" began to be produced. He didn’t have a remote control, he often chewed on film and cost fifteen hundred Soviet rubles, but Japanese ones generally cost the price of a car (and, of course, were not sold in the USSR), so there was no choice. VHS cassettes were also hard to come by. The people loved action movies with Bruce Lee and Schwarzenegger, horror movies Friday the 13th and Poltergeist. A separate line was "Emmanuelle", speaking in the nasal voice of Volodarsky - however, like all movie heroes of that era.

But if the VCR was not available to every family, then the cassette player was quite an ordinary part of life. "Electronics", "Spring", "Desna", "Tom", "Elegy" ... Two-cassette "Sharp" occupied an honorable stationary place on the "wall", and domestic ones were bought as a gift for children, and they were allowed to be taken out of the house.


Repair
Brown-green paint on the walls of the kitchen and bathroom. Where did they get this one from? But she was also in short supply, because at eye level the paint ended and whitewashing began. The ceiling was also whitewashed - the craftsmen somehow adapted the vacuum cleaner. Boards lay on the floor, and the owners threw thick linoleum on top.


Sideboard
Certainly polished, on thin legs, with a glazed top. A service, glasses, crystal vases, porcelain animals and photographs of beloved relatives were placed behind the glass. Of course, there was not enough space for all this in the sideboard, so they soon remained with the most inert citizens, and the rest acquired “walls”.


Wall
This item is unlikely to leave post-Soviet apartments soon. Spaciousness was valued in the "walls" - they kept clothes, shoes, household appliances, dishes, books. But more important was the beauty. Imported ones were considered beautiful. The Yugoslav "Spectrum" with inlays, the Romanian "Mirage", covered with cherry lacquer, the solid "Bastei" under the oak were imported from the GDR. Mirrored bars sparkled, and even domestic liquor products looked very decent in them. And if someone brought a bottle of blue curacao or green chartreuse from abroad ... do not take your eyes off!


trellis
Mirror on a low pedestal with two additional mirror doors. A very convenient thing, it allowed the beauties to examine themselves from any angle. Perfume bottles and perfume bottles were placed in front of the mirror - if there was something to brag about. Due to the design of the cabinet, it was uncomfortable to sit in front of him, so women put on makeup while standing.

Porcelain and crystal
Salad bowls, as heavy as shells for a tank gun, are for Olivier with scarce green peas and mayonnaise, for a simple vinaigrette, for an exquisite "mimosa". Chocolates were poured into deep boats. In flat ones - a herring was laid, onion on top in half rings. Special barrels were supposed for caviar. For the cake - a flat dish and a spatula with a twisted handle. Piles for vodka, glasses for wine, they are also for "Soviet" champagne. In wealthy houses, even ashtrays were made of crystal. In their sparks and arrows, the White Seas looked wild. The hostesses lusted after the “Madonna” service with mother-of-pearl tints made in the GDR, but Soviet porcelain was also very good, although not so playful in the sense of the plot.


Wall mural
It would seem that a wonderful and inexpensive way to refresh the interior of the same type of Khrushchev. But why was the choice so poor! Everyone says that they remember only birch trees. But was it really that bad? Before going to sleep, you look without stopping: a path in sunny bunnies leads you through a bright grove, from there you can hear the voices and laughter of friends ...

We took the carpets to the dump, handed out the crystal to good hands, renovated and hi-tech renovated our grandmother's apartments, and our childhood went to the birch grove painted on the wallpaper. Do not return.

- a total return to the aesthetics of the 1980s. Bright color, flat designs and lots of angular geometry. For many designers, the 80s are a flashback to their youth, so this trend is completely two-channel. That's why the 80s style took off again, and in our review there are several ways to help you use this trend.

1) Everything new is a well-forgotten old

As upsetting as it is for the kids of the 80s, this era is already officially considered retro. To make this realization a little less painful, let's call this decade "modern retro."

This "old" style is distinguished by elements designed for early low-resolution screens. It uses design elements that take us back to the nostalgia of early Nintendo gaming systems, proving the popularity of pixel art and poster art.

The old new style includes 80s charm plus everything you want to implement on a website today, with great animation and easy to read typography. Look, for example, at The Vinyl Lab website. It greets you with an 80s aesthetic, but as soon as you scroll through the site, it feels completely modern and works equally great on phones and smaller devices. Is this a new or old design? You decide.

2) Patterns and shapes that provide visual interest

Geometric shapes and fun patterns can give a design exactly what it needs – a shift away from the minimalism that was so popular until recently to a more imaginative aesthetic.

Your visual style will help determine which option is best:

Using a pattern if the design is clean and organized and something in the background won't interfere with the content

Using geometric shapes to add a bold pop of color to an overall design if it seems a bit dull. Caava Design, in the example below, uses colorful geometry in a very inspiring way.

3) Fashion influence

W Magazine predicts the style of the 80s as one of the biggest trends in fashion.

Before you roll your eyes and ask: what does fashion have to do with it? - listen to our arguments. Regardless of the type of design - whether it's fashion, art, interior design or website development - each genre influences the other.

So, how will the long hair and leggings so popular in the 80s affect websites. Elements of the 80s can appear in the clothing of the people in the photographs. And to balance the imagery, you might have to use oversized typography to make up for the model's super-sized hair.

Textiles can also be an indicator of visually pleasing elements. If people buy neon orange shirts or pants with bold patterns, they won't find flashy design elements offensive, and even vice versa, they will subconsciously look for them on websites.

4) Neo Memphis is gaining momentum

The design in this style is packed with bright color and lots of shapes and lines. The authors of this aesthetic model is the Memphis Group - a bunch of interior designers who worked in the 1980s.

The Memphis style is really flat with vectorized elements in an almost cartoonish style. Often elements are layered on top of a white (light) or black (dark) background, creating a sharp contrast between them. This style is bright and cheerful, attracting attention.

5) Space and darkness are intriguing

The 80s were characterized by the use of artistic images using neon on a dark background and space motifs.

Space is still a dominant theme in design, and many space projects have a nostalgic feel to the 80s era. The TV show Mars in the example below uses this idea with a dark background, bright logo and 3D style lettering.

6) Influence of flat design

Flat design has been popular lately, so its shift to the 80s aesthetic is quite natural. It's a kind of natural evolution - when modern trends are combined with a retro concept.

The 80s themes combined with modern elements create a feeling of a bygone era, but with a user interface that modern users expect to see.

7) Total use of iconography

Many design styles from the 80s included cute little icons. Tiny palm trees and sunglasses on shirts, squiggles and lines on laptops - the iconography marks the resurgence of the 80s. With so many icons imitating handwritten elements, iconography can be classed as an art form in its own right. Icons can provide more flexibility for projects that lack other visual effects and help visually organize content.

Here is an example of using 80s style iconography: lots of small icons in different places, often in random order.

8) Juicy color on the screens

Bright color schemes are growing in popularity, another trend that is associated with flat design. It seems like a natural response to all those black and white palettes that dominated during the high phase of minimalism. The shift towards color allows developers to play more and more with design, showing creative freedom.

In conclusion….

One of the biggest reasons for the return to the 80s aesthetic is the pop culture seeping in from the past. Maybe it's nostalgia that overtakes every generation, maybe it's a natural cycle of styles. One thing is for sure: if you see the influence of the 80s in fashion or music, it will definitely cover web design. Don't resist - just enjoy the trend. The 80s were fun and nonchalant - and your modern retro design should reflect that.

Let's create something cool together!