If you could have chosen your own art as a child, chances are you would have picked something like this Beano and Dandy canvas art.
Forget the new computer-generated version, this is old school comic art from the heyday of the Beano and Dandy, with a choice of Desperate Dan or Dennis The Menace (and Gnasher) covers, printed on canvas sized at a regular 71 x 51cm or a whopping 100 x 140cm.
Prices start at £99.99.
Pussy Home Boutique has a selection of Sixties Photographic Prints for sale. There is a choice of six different images, but they are all in black & white and feature pictures of glamorous girls from the 1960s.
The prints all measure 54cm by 65cm, and are sold ready framed in a wooden frame. Not sure why, but the first three prints (as pictured here) cost £45 and the other three cost £125.
Visit the Pussy Home Boutique website to view the full range.
Photographer Patrick McMullan was friends with Andy Warhol and a regular at Studio 54, with his photographs of that nightclub capturing the essence of those decadent times.
Books of his photography are available to buy but if you want something a bit more daring, he has just lent one of his images to a shower curtain, so you can have a piece of his art in your bathroom. The Patrick McMullan Studio 54 Shower Curtain features a black & white image from the famous nightclub, printed on a white vinyl shower curtain.
It is available to buy for $30 (approximately £15) from Izola Shower.
This has to be one of the strangest items I’ve seen in quite some time. It is a model of the Dakota Building, with the date that made it notorious inscribed on the bottom. That date being, of course, the assassination of John Lennon (the building’s exterior was also used in Rosemary’s Baby, but that isn’t the disaster to which it refers).
It is one of a series entitled “Buildings of Disaster” with others in the collection including the Texas Book Depository, Watergate and Chernobyl. The art project itself aimed to look at how disasters change our perceptions of famous landmarks or unremarkable architecture, which is an interesting idea, but perhaps buying one for your home is a little morbid.
Still, if you fancy a replica Dakota Building, you can buy one for $110 (approximately £56) from Moss. They are Limited Edition, although I’m not sure demand will be that high.
Browsing through a gift shop last week, I noticed these really striking Roobarb and Custard greetings cards – which I’ve just discovered are also available to buy online.
To the uninitiated, Roobarb was a short animated cartoon series from the 1970s, first shown in 1974 in fact, with all the distinctive animations drawn by Bob Godfrey. Indeed, all the drawings on the cards are officially licensed Godfrey images, with everything from birthdays to get well soon and retirement covered.
Check out the full range via the link below, with cards priced around £1.99 each.
Find out more at the Really Fab Cards website
If you liked the bold fruit print of Enzo Mari’s “La Mala” and "La Per" that we featured recently but weren’t so keen on the price tag, perhaps the Marimekko "Paaryna" Wall Hanging will be a good alternative.
Hand screen-printed on cotton, the wall hanging measures 57 inches by 36 inches and features the bold pear design created by Maija Isola and Kristina Isola in 1969.
It costs just $24.95 (approximately £13) from CB2, who also sell appropriate all the appropriate rails and hooks too.
