Slightly retro and a little quirky, we’ve dug out some art and design inspiration to go with the creamy, pastel, 1950s inspired interiors that seem to be popping up everywhere at the moment. Here’s proof that pale doesn’t need to be boring.

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_{Shop these prints and tees: 1. Vintage Camera and Retro Telephone from Andreka 2. Burroughs from OneLittleBird 3. September Sea from Lucy Loomis 4. The Typewriter from Cassia 5. I Got Your Back from thepisforpenis 6. Love Song from soulstream 7. Through the Heart of a Photographer from Raditya Fadilla 8. Retro Rolleiflex from Denis Marsili 9. Bloom from GalaxyEyes 10. Typography from lodesign 11. Friends for life – Elephant}…

_{Image Credit: Clive Arrowsmith}

Critics, journalists and viewers alike have always loved to hate Damien Hirst. If one thing unites contemporary art dialogues, it is the sport-like nature of bashing his artistic and business endeavours. Controversial and deliberately provocative, he is now arguably more recognised for his soundbites and attitude to the relationship between art and commerce than he is for contributions to modern art.

_{Image Credit: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Saatchi Gallery}

Damien Hirst has spent the last twenty years becoming one very savvy businessman. In 2007, For the Love of God – a skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds – sold for £50 million. And in 2008 Hirst auctioned 223 items of work for a record £111 million. …