Category: Art and Photography

Categories / Art and Photography, Food and Drink, Homeware

Hair of the Dog tiki mug by Mitch O’Connell for Munktiki

Posted on | Leave a comment

Hair of the dog
Retro favourite Mitch O'Connell is a multi-talented guy – artist & designer, tattooist and now designer of ceramics. 

Purveyors of fine tiki paraphernalia Munktiki have released a limited run of this Hair of the Dog tiki mug. Each poor hungover dog has an ice pack hat which you can put your straw through and will keep your revival remedy for the morning after the night before nicely chilled. Standing at an impressive 9 inches tall, it makes for a suitably kitsch adornment in any 50s den.

The Hair of the Dog tiki mug is a limited edition of 100 and is $60 from the Munktiki webstore.

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Eames-inspired Hang it All – Hang it Big by Ruby Anemic

Posted on | Leave a comment

Hang

The original was one of the first things we featured on this site and there was also a limited edition last year that we also covered. But neither of the original Hang-It-Alls have the impact of the Hang It All – Hang it Big by Ruby Anemic. Because it's huge.

Artist Ruby Anemic has created a 200 x 160cm sculpted tribute to the iconic 1953 coat rack by Charles & Ray Eames, with those tubes made of lacquered white metal, topped off by the polychrome lacquered spheres.

Signed and numbered and limited to 53 units, it sells online for an equally hefty 8,300 Euros, plus shipping of course.

Find out more at the Colette website

Via Switched On Set

Categories / Art and Photography, Music

Ensemble print from Moxy Creative House

Posted on | Leave a comment

Styleofmusic-full
The story of Rock 'n' Roll has been told in many ways but this Ensemble print from Moxy Creative House uses twenty of music's most stylish dressers. Each musician is represented by one of their most distinctive outfits.

While there are some pretty uninspiring choices on there – Pete Doherty and Brandon Flowers for example – there are lots more that are likely to appeal, crossing musical genres: take your pick from Bob Dylan, Chet Baker, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Elvis, Kiss and Run DMC just for starters. The design is bound to amuse but also to prompt many discussions about its selection (no Bowie? no female stars? etc etc). 

You can buy the print showing all twenty outfits together or, if you have a particular favourite, prints of each ensemble are available individually too. 

Each print costs $30. 

Order them online

Categories / Art and Photography

Swifty 40th anniversary of Decimalisation limited edition prints

Posted on | Leave a comment

Swifty

The 15th February 1971 saw the United Kingdom's currency change from the centuries old tradition of shillings and sixpence, to the new decimal currency of one hundred pence to one pound. 40 years on and the event is celebrated by these 40th anniversary of Decimalisation limited edition prints by Swifty.

Most of the coins have survived in some way or other, with the exception of the 'half penny', which was withdrawn in 1984 and is paid tribute to in the series of prints.

Take your pick from four striking colours, original bronze, orange, peacock blue and magenta, all hand pulled silk screen prints, signed and numbered by the artist, sized at 50 x 50cm and in an edition of only 40 per colourway. The price is £40 – or 8,000 half pennies!

Find out more at the Swifty website

Categories / Art and Photography, Music

Ten Great Years print by Max Dalton

Posted on | Leave a comment

Max dalton print

You may remember Max Dalton's name from his great Cocktail party cut-out set we featured a while back. His new design Ten Great Years turns his attention to The Beatles. 

It's a very simple concept – he's illustrated the Fab Four through all their musical and style evolution, giving an at a glance snapshot of the sixties. All the iconic looks of the band are on there, such as the Sgt. Pepper's military jackets, their Yellow Submarine characters or Paul barefoot in his Tommy Nutter Abbey Road suit. Yoko Ono even sneaks into the bottom row. 

The print is available in a variety of formats and prices, starting at $56.99 for a small print on paper.

Buy it online

Categories / Art and Photography, Homeware

Ceramic Door Numbers from Pussy Home Boutique

Posted on | Leave a comment

P_old-style-numbers-all
At a touch of the old time fairground to your front door with these vintage style Ceramic Door Numbers from Pussy Home Boutique. The glazed ceramic numbers are hand painted in a Victorian circus-style font and finished in gloss.

A subtle retro statement for the outside of your home that's unique, weatherproof and purse-friendly at only £1.99 per tile.

Available from Pussy Home Boutique. Visit their website for more details.