BodaNova Smile glassware

With its bright and cheerful decoration, it's easy to see how BodaNova's Smile range of glassware got its name. The glasses are simply  shaped and given a retro look by the organic looking forms of the pattern. In reality, they are a contemporary design from Barbro Wesslander for the Swedish company. 

The set of glasses and the carafe are sold separately, each costing £19.80, and are packaged in a matching gift box to make them a perfect summer's gift. 

Buy them from the My Living Space website

New additions to New House Textiles' vintage print tea towel range

New House Textiles have recently made some attractive new additions to their range of tea towels utilising rediscovered designs. The image shows a detail from one of the designs: Louise Fougstedt's Cook's Favourites which originates from the 1950s. It features illustrations of kitchen ingredients alongside their plant source and name in Swedish. Useful for learning a bit of botany and Swedish as well as drying dishes! 

They've also introduced another fascinating design from the fifties, Brit Bredström's Lazy Lunch. This illustrates things such as fish on platters and delicacies on sticks, as if presented for your consumption. Both tea towels cost £8.50 each. 

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Temperance tattoo hip flask

Although its motif claims temperance, it's hardly going to be encouraged by this tattoo inspired hip flask. It's been decorated using a traditional swallow design, hand painted onto pink suede, making it a very stylish way to carry 2oz of your favourite tipple around with you.  

There is also a similarly retro design featuring a mermaid for sale. The flask costs $30.

Buy it from ManEatingFlower's Etsy store

KleinReid Eva ceramic collection

The sculptural Eva pitchers shown here are part of ongoing collaboration between the American company KleinReid and the ceramist Eva Zeisel. Zeisel is well known for her organic modernist pieces, working in Germany and Russia, before emigrating to the United States in the 1930s. KleinReid, meanwhile, is a Brooklyn based business founded by David Reid and James Klein in 1993 which prides itself on the craftsmanship of their handmade ceramics and other products. 

As proved by these pitchers, the collaboration works well. The larger of the pitchers measures just over 29cm high and the smaller 21cm meaning their sensuous curves fit snuggly together to make a statement piece. The style of Zeisel's work is reflected in the rest of the range which includes a teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl set and now also crystal. The set of two pitchers costs $285 with prices for the crystal reaching up to $1160. 

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Robert Archard's life size biscuit boxes

Robert Archard's biscuit boxes offer the chance to take the taste of childhood with you everywhere you go. Like the Soop China Crumbs plates featured earlier in the week, they celebrate favourite biscuits like jammy dodgers, chocolate bourbons and custard creams. Each ceramic box is shaped and coloured like a different biscuit and, most importantly, is exactly sized to fit the biscuit they represent inside.

A very stylish way to carry your tea time snack to work, each box costs £20. 

Buy them from Beyond the Valley

Urban Graphic retro mugs from Big Tomato Company

Each mug in the Urban Graphic from the Big Tomato Company features a different stylised object. As well the anglepoise lamp and retro radio pictured, the ten designs also include a dalek, a shoe and a teapot meaning there's something for every taste and interest. And to make it even more of an ideal gift, they each come with their own matching gift box too. 

As with all of the Big Tomato mugs, they are manufactured in Stoke-on-Trent from creamware. The metallic decoration which works so well here is created using 24ct gold and platinum. Each mug costs £13.95. 

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Gemüse by Graziela China

The Gemüse designs by Graziela date back to 1975, but has now been added to a collection of fine bone china.

The iconic images are all of vegetables, namely a radish, cucumber, onion, sweetcorn, pepper and asparagus. The mugs all feature a large picture of one vegetable while the dinner plates feature three small images of the vegetable on the rim. There is also a serving platter which has one of each of the vegetables around the outside.

The mugs cost £12.50, the plates £19 and the Serving Plate £39, all available from Thorsten Van Elten.

Coca-cola cafe chair from After Noah

After Noah have some of these classic 1970s French style folding chairs for sale, each featuring the distinctive branding of coca-cola. For me, it conjures up some happy memories of sitting on something similar, somewhere on a school exchange, while supping a bottle of fizzy drink. 

If that's the kind of atmosphere you'd like to replicate in your own garden, there are 52 available, each costing £65. And cruelly, though they look French, the website reveals that these chairs were actually made in the USA. 

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Rice lunch plates

These old fashioned looking lunch plates look like something you would happily unearth at a car boot sale, rather than something that would be produced today, but they are contemporary and part of the collection of Danish company Rice. 

Each plate is hand painted in beautiful muted colours and features botanical illustrations. The designs vary from item to item given them even more of a unique feel. This timeless piece of investment will cost you £14 a plate. 

Buy them from the Chest of Drawers website

Salt N Pepa shakers

It's a simple idea but one that's guaranteed to raise a wry smile every time you flavour your food: salt and pepper shakers in the guise of the world's best female selling rap act, Salt N Pepa. 

The illustrations, which are digitally cut out of vinyl and hand applied to traditional shakers, show them in their finest 80s fashions. They are the bright idea of  Addie Gartland who sells them through her Drink and Dream Etsy shop for $30 a set.

Sadly no sign of Spinderella though. 

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