Invisible Friend has designed this set of four Guitar Headstock Mugs.
Each of the mugs feature illustrations of iconic guitars: Fender Telecaster, Gibson Les Paul, Fender Stratocaster and Rickenbacker 330. They are recreated in bright pop art colours against a neutral background. An ideal way for a budding guitar hero to take his (or her) tea.
The set of four mugs costs £29.50, available exclusively from Not on the High Street.
Etsy seller Retrowhale has created some great coasters based on literal illustrations of band names.
The Build Your Own Favourite Band Coasters are sold in sets of four, giving you the option to choose which bands you want. Most of the bands are old favourites from the 60s and 70s includingThe Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Who, Pink Floyd and Velvet Underground, but there is also a more grunge-based selection should that be your thing.
They cost around £30 plus postage from the Retrowale Etsy store.
Having mentioned Heal’s original exhibition of Scandinavian furniture in the post about their Arkiv Storage Unit earlier in the week, here is a poster advertising that event.
The Scandinavian Furniture Poster is taken from an advertisement from the Fifties. It features a typical midcentury chair and table in shades of yellow and blue that are also typical of the period. It is sold framed in a wooden frame.
It costs £90 from Heal’s.
Francesca Iannaccone makes kitsch wooden books under the name Mrs Eliot Books, but it was her Modernist Greeting Cards that particularly caught my attention.
Sold as a pack of four, each card features an illustration of a midcentury sideboard (possibly something by G Plan) with a collection of ceramics and ornaments on top of it. Each card has a different sideboard and the objects vary, but looks to include Cathrineholm ceramics and Holmegaard or Whtefriars glassware. Perfect for welcoming a design conscious friend to their new home.
The cards cost £4.75 per pack from the Mrs Eliot Books store on Etsy.
The Kiss Me Quick Wallpaper from Albany’s Love Your Walls collection is channels the 1950s seaside postcard vibe.
It features pictures of buxom bathing belles, seagulls, helter skelters and vintage cars, along with the words “Oh I do like to be beside the seaside” written in the style of lettering found on carousels. The wallpaper is black and white with metallic silver accents.
It costs £18.99 per roll from Wallpaper Direct.
Heal’s celebrates 60 years since it introduced Scandinavian design to its customers with the 1951 exhibition 'Scandinavian Design For Living' with a new range of midcentury Scandinavian-inspired products including the Arkiv Storage Unit Oak by John Jenkins.
John Jenkin’s storage unit updates a 1950s design using a combination of solid oak and white laminate and provides a handy storage solution. The Arkiv range also includes a sideboard (pretty much the storage unit minus the shelving) and a trapezium shaped coffee table.
The storage unit costs £1,995, the sideboard £1,395 and the coffee table £495, all exclusive to Heal’s.
