Another stylish range of mugs and plates from People Will Always Need Plates, this time focusing on 1930s Modernist Seaside Villas.
All are made from English bone china, boldly printed with designs of white-rendered coastal houses from St Margarets at Cliffe, Penzance, Beeston Regis and Llandudno.
All are dishwasher-safe, with the plates sized at 27.5cm, selling for £25 each and the mugs offering a 25cl capacity, yours for £10 each.
Minimalist and functional – it's no wonder the Arne Jacobsen City Hall clock is still doing swift business over 40 years after its introduction.
The clock was designed by Jacobsen in 1961 for (you guessed it) the SAS Hotel in Copenhagen, offering up an aluminium frame, curved glass front and no nonsense dashes for the hours and minutes.
Available online, it sells for £267.
More recycling of old vinyl – in this case, Classic Record Wallets from Gorilla Vinyl.
Take your pick from a large selection of classics, all made from original vinyl, coated with a protective polymer and converted to a black nylon wallet. And it's a practical item too, with 10 pockets for your cash and cards.
All are made in very limited amounts (just one of the Velvet Underground above available) and all are priced from around $75 (around £50). See the site for the full range.
Ok, we're talking a pretty niche market here, but we really love the Acme Made Bowler.
It's essentially a bag for your camera – a serious (and substantial) digital SLR camera specifically, with padding to keep it secure and small pockets for your extras (like storage cards for example). And while that makes it a practical item for photographers, it's the look of a vintage bowling bag that we're sold on. In fact, even if you didn't have a camera, this glossy red bag would be cool for carrying around your essentials.
We have scoured round for a retailer, but as yet, we can't find one. It might be worth checking with the Acme Made sellers (listed on the site) to see when they're getting stock. Price quoted is $39.99, which is a ridiculously cheap £27.
Patrick McGoohan has died after a short illness, aged 80.
He may be gone, but his work will live on – most notably as a super cool secret agent (working and retired) in the cult classics Danger Man and The Prisoner, but also in a host of British films including the likes of Hell Drivers, All Night Long and Life For Ruth to name just three. McGoohan was even considered for the original Bond role – a role he would have fit like a glove.
He left these shores amid the furore over The Prisoner, making a name for himself on TV, picking up two Emmy awards for the Columbo show and appearing regularly on both the big and small screen right up to the mid-90s.
But it's The Prisoner that will be his lasting legacy – and here's the iconic opening sequence by way of a tribute…
Arguably one of the finest sitcoms ever made, The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin is now being given the remake treatment by the BBC.
The original, written by David Nobbs, starred Leonard Rossiter as a sales executive in the midst of a mid-life crisis and on the brink of a nervous breakdown – telling the world what he thinks before finally departing the daily grind for a new life as a new man.
According to the BBC, the new version will be written by Nobbs and Simon Nye, with Martin Clunes will take on the title role of Reggie Perrin, supported by Fay Ripley (Cold Feet), Wendy Craig (Butterflies, The Royal), Geoffrey Whitehead (Worst Week Of My Life), Neil Stuke (Game On) and Lucy Liemann (Moving Wallpaper). Six episodes are being filmed for showing later in 2009. It could be good, it could be bad – but I suspect it will not be a patch on the original.
