With Jonathan Adler’s love of 1970s design, it was only a matter of time before he produced a Fondue Set.
The set comprises of a fondue bowl, plus four serving bowls and four forks. The ceramic pieces are all decorated with a retro pattern in shades of blue and green. You create chocolate (sadly not cheese) fondue by heating it in the main bowl over a tea light. The set is supplied in matching gift box.
It costs $98 (around £63) from the Jonathan Adler website.
Photowall has a range of retro wallpapers that you would have to be pretty brave to use as even restricted to a feature wall, they make a bold statement.
Helpfully, the site has computer generated images of each wallpaper design in various rooms, so you can see how it might look in different settings, although noticeable all of these rooms lean towards minimalism. Pictured here is the design they simply call Retro – Orange, which I’m sure is pretty similar to a pair of curtains we had back in the Seventies, so have a soft spot for (although I think I might tire of it quickly looking at it every day). Other designs include concentric hexagons, curved corners squares, diamond shapes and other psychedelic styles, all in bright or strong colours.
Whereas most wallpaper is sold by the roll, Photowall sells its designs by the square metre so you can order exactly how much you need for your wall. Designs in the retro collection cost either Euros 21 per m² or Euros 24 per m². Visit the Photowall website to see the whole collection.
Craig Ennew has joined the growing ranks of artists and designers creating exclusives for Pedlars. He has produced three limited edition print designs, each consisting of a montage of vintage images around a particular theme.
Pictured here is the design “Old Reliable” which brings together a collection of traditional British images, including Queen Victoria, a cup of tea, a detail from a banknote and Union Jack. The other designs are “Woman and Shoes” which features a woman from the 1940s grasping a giant shoe, surrounded by other footwear from various periods, and “Good Morning, Many Things to Do”, which includes a cockerel, breakfast cereal and a vintage caravan.
The prints are limited to ten for each design and are sold framed for £199. Visit the Pedlars site to buy.
The Pucci Book is probably the ultimate coffee table book for lovers of Emilio Pucci patterns and fashions.
This extra large volume features hundreds of photographs, drawings, and candid shots from the Emilio Pucci Foundation archive, accompanied by text explaining their importance. Each book comes bound with one of a selection of prints from the Pucci collection.
As you might expected it comes with a designer price tag, costing £135. Buy it online from Utility Design.
British textile and interiors designer, Cressida Bell has an enviable heritage in the arts – her grandmother was the artist Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf was her aunt. With such Bloomsbury Group luminaries as family, it is inevitable that hints of their style would be apparent in Cressida’s work, but her designs have enough charm in their own right, as you can see from these Ibis Cushions.
Available in a choice of red or blue, the cushion covers hand printed on 100% linen and feature a quirky vintage-style illustration of the Ibis bird. The cushion covers are sold without pads, but fit a 41cm square cushion. Buy the cushions online directly from Cressida Bell’s website, priced £41 each.
Following the Full Moon Coffee Table set mentioned last week, here is another space-saving furniture set, but with a very different look.
The UNA set, designed by Zita Menyhart, has that great space-age futuristic retro look, rather than the mid-century style that these sets usually adopt. It looks as if it is made from some sort of moulded plastic and conists of a coffee table and two stools. The base of the table acting as either storage space for magazines or can be used with the additional ice bucket to keep drinks cool. It is available in five colours, although the pure white is best for the space age look.
It costs just under £2,000 from the Hidden Art Shop.
