Get your disco pants on with funky interiors

Kya deLongchamps discovers that the decade taste forgot was merely misunderstood, and more than deserves a second chance.

Seventies interior style was once relegated to the design sin-bin, complete with gold-plated dolphin taps, spider plants, avocado bidets and crochet cushion covers.

Foreheads dribbled in a permanent wave, dung-coloured bell bottoms flapping to the Bee-Gees in the midst of the (to quote Billy Crystal) the ‘white-man’s overbite’ — the memories are fresh, painful even.