Categories / Homeware, Kids

Vintage Car Wallpaper

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This Vintage Car Wallpaper is another quirky wallpaper from Dutch designers Studio Ditto, whose Vintage Plates Wallpaper we mentioned a while back.

This wallpaper features various toy vehicles (cars, camper vans, trucks and tanks), but rather than shiny new toys, these are old ones that have clearly been played with and in the process, taken a bit of a battering.

The wallpaper costs £120 per roll from Catkin Collection.

Categories / Homeware

Turner Pocock Cazalet Cricket Wallpaper

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Interior design company Turner Pocock has joined forces with artist Catherine Cazalet and together they have produced some fantastic wallpapers including this Cricket wallpaper from their English Sports series.

The design consists of a very simple drawing of a bat and ball, but arranged so as to create a pleasing geometric pattern. It is available in the natural colourway pictured here with a cream bat and a red ball or with white outlines on a teal background. Tribute is played to tennis in a similar style.

The wallpaper is available to buy from Turner Pocock Cazalet, priced £60 + VAT per roll.

Categories / Food and Drink, Music

Sex, Tea and Rock n Roll Tea Bags

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This is possibly one of the silliest items I’ve seen in some time, but Christmas is coming and we are partial to a cup of tea, so I thought I would share these with you.

The Sex, Tea and Rock n Roll Tea Bags are part of the Tea Party series by German company Donkey Products. Quite simply, each tea bag has a cardboard image of a famous person instead of the the usual string and tab. In this case, the characters are icons from music; Elvis, Hendrix, Lennon, Jackson and Marley. There is also a classic film themed set consisting of Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Charlie Chaplin and I’m guessing Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster, as well as other themes such as politics, peace, Christmas and royalty.

A set of five tea party bags costs €7.95 (around £7) from Donkey Products.

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Fornasetti Home Fragrances

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The latest items to be added to the ever-expanding range of Fornasetti products, is a collection of Fornasetti Home Fragrances.

The collection includes scented candles in ceramic pots decorated with his instantly recognisable designs Bacio (mouth/kiss), L'Architettura (architecture), Civette (owls) and L'Ape (bee), priced £90 or larger scented candles with the Viso a strisce (stripy face) or Scimmie (monkeys) for £350. There are also oil diffusers, incense burners, room sprays and incense boxes, which are all perfumed with the same fragrance.

The scent used is “Otto”, the eighth variation, which uses Mediterranean herbs found around the Fornasetti family home, along with woods used in Formasetti’s furniture and interiors, and incense to recreate the dreamlike qualities of his designs. It is always tricky to know if you will like a fragrance based just on a description, but with these products, you are probably paying for the containers and packaging as much as the scent itself.

Visit Milk Concept Boutique for further details.

Categories / Bags, Design and Interiors

Hanitape Cassette-Shaped Wallet

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There are almost as many cassette-tape related products as there are vinyl-inspired items, although I doubt somehow that the CD will be the cause of such nostalgia in years to come. The latest cassette item I’ve seen is the Hanitape, a wallet by the London based design Haniboi.

Made from recyclable silicone rubber in the shape of a cassette tape, the Hanitape fastens using magnets so that your cash and cards are kept securely inside. It is available in three bright colours (red, yellow and blue, but I think the grey version looks most like a real tape. 

Buy the Hanitape online from the Hanibol website, for £12.50

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

COAL Design Horrice Chair

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The Horrice Chair was created by COAL Design in association with the Hidden Art Shop for this year’s 100% Design event. So in that respect, it is very much a new design, but its shape is very much in the mid-century style.

Its frame is made from interlocking sections of Walnut veneered MDF, whilst the seat is upholstered in wool in a choice of colours, including the unusual lemon yellow option pictured here. The back cushion has four buttons in a contrasting colour, a sweet little finishing touch. The chair is made in Sheffield with all of the materials sourced within Yorkshire.

The Horrice chair costs £599 and can be ordered through the Hidden Art Shop website.