Sagaform can always be relied upon for a good retro pattern such with the Blossom Teapot being the latest.
The teapot is made from stoneware with an oak lid. If the design looks familiar, that is because Blossom combines the elements of three other Camilla Engdahl patterns: Tulip, Daisy and Clover, so if you already own tea sets in those prints, this teapot will work well with them.
Buy it from Illustrated Living, priced £25.95.
The Letteroom specialises in personalised gifts, which isn’t that unusual, but their Crayola Letter Art is something a bit different.
Housed in a white wooden box frame, it consists of a capital letter made entirely from Crayola crayons of different lengths and colours. You get to pick the letter obviously, but you can also chose between multi-coloured crayons, shades of pinks or shades of blue. It would make a good gift for a child or an adult nostalgic for childhood.
Buy it directly from The Letteroom for £37.50
The Waldorf Sofa is part of Heal’s classic designs range.
The shape of the sofa takes its inspiration from designs of the 1930s, with its semi-circular ends and cutaway arm details. The sofa is available in a range of fabrics, so if the floral pattern pictured here isn’t to your taste then they may have something more to your liking in-store.
It is available exclusively to Heal’s and is currently in the sale with a starting price of £1,596 reduced from £1,995.
In his last book The Sixties Unplugged, Gerard De Groot proposed that the 1960s weren’t the happy-go-lucky radical decade of popular belief and now in his new book, he casts a similarly unbiased eye over the 1970s.
The Seventies Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic Look at a Violent Decade takes an episodic approach to the decade, looking at some of the major political events around the world. In his introduction, De Groot writes that he wanted to move away from the stereotypical view of the 1970s as not being as good as the 1960s, but found that the theme that dominated his research was how violent the decade was. With chapters on dictators, terrorists and Vietnam, it is a pretty serious read and certainly not your typical beach book (although I read it on my recent holiday).
It is available in paperback from Amazon, priced £5.84
We’ve mentioned Peter Blake’s Paris prints before, but now they are available in at a price at everyone can afford in the form of the Paris Box Set.
The boxset comprises 20 lithographic postcards, each featuring a different collage of the city inspired by antique souvenir postcards. Typical Blake motifs such as butterflies, circuses, magic and crowds feature in the designs.
The boxset costs £25 from the Polite Shop.
How about a teak lamp to sit on your vintage teak sideboard?
The Skitsch Wood Table Lamp is made from thin strips of teak. The angle of the shade can be changed to alter the way the light falls. It measures 52cm diameter by 62cm high. If you fancy a bigger one, there is a floor standing version at 179cm tall. The table version costs just over £580, whilst the floor lamp cost nearly a thousand more.
Buy them online at Nest.
