Lotta Kühlhorn, whose apple patterned products we’ve highlighted in the past, has a new pattern that appears on products including this Luna Trivet.
The Luna design combines her love of 1950’s geometric patterns with suitable retro colours. The trivet itself is a handy little item, being the ideal size to rest your smaller pans or teapot on, or to use a chopping board.
It costs £17.95 from Hus and Hem, where you can also buy coasters in the same print for £13.95
I don’t know about you, but I know everyone in my class went through a craze for bubble writing back in the 1980s, so this book “How to be the Best Bubble Writer in the World Ever” by Linda Scott brought back some childhood memories.
The book devotes a double page spread to each of the hand-drawn typefaces it features, with one page devoted to the alphabet in that style and the other page showing the inspiration behind it. The book contains various activities to get you doodling creatively.
Buy it from Amazon for £6.12.
Your little darlings are probably more likely to do their homework on a laptop than writing in an exercise book, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t still give them a good old-fashioned desk to sit at, like this Ethan School Desk.
Inspired by school desks from the 1950s and 1960s, the design has been updated by using a sleek white finish. The tilt and height of the desk can be adjusted, so your kids won’t outgrow it too quickly. It is currently on sale with the price reduced from£322 to £229.98.
Buy it online at Furniture123.
If the scenes in Mad Men are to be believed, everyone n the 1960s smoked and they did it everywhere. That may be why the period also produced stylishly designed ashtrays, the likes of which have provided the inspiration behind this Smoking Post from Matalan.
The smoking post is made from a combination of cyan plastic and silver metal and stands at 59cm high.It costs just £10.
Buy it online at the Matalan website.
Like the Hepburn Bed that we featured not too long ago, the Hastoe Windsor Chair is a design by Matthew Hilton for De La Espada.
Here he has taken the traditional Windsor Chair and updated it slightly, although it still maintains a midcentury feel to it. The chair is named after the village new High Wycombe where it is produced. It is available in a choice of ash or American black walnut. Not cheap by any standards at £654, you can console yourself with the fact that it is timeless design that won’t fall out of fashion.
Buy it online at Utility Design.
BHS has a surprising number of appealing designs in their Lighting department, including this Adjustable Dome Pendant.
The pendant has a swivel head which allows the light source to be angled, as well as making it look more interesting. It is made of steel and is available in chrome or for a truly retro effect, in the orange finish pictured here. The pendant cost £100, but is currently on offer at £80.
Buy it online at BHS.
