Collector of vintage ceramics? This plate wallpaper by Studio Ditte is sure to appeal, as it's covered with images of antique porcelain plates. It's probably much easier to put up than trying to hang and arrange your own collection.
The paper comes in rolls of six meters, with a pattern repeat of three metres.
However, there's a designer price tag attached to this look as it costs £120 a roll.
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Released today is Marnie Fogg's new book on 1950s Fashion Prints. Marnie Fogg is the author behind both the vintage handbags book and the one about Sixties fashion boutiques, while this volume is the sister volume to her book on 1960s fashion print.
It's intended to act as a source of inspiration for design students and practitioners and its 192 pages are jammed full of designs from the key figures of the time such as Lucienne Day and Robert Stewart, as well as key companies such as Marimekko. The designs are grouped thematically by topics that influenced the designs of the period such as the influence of artists on fabric designs or novelty patterns. There's plenty on its pages to inspire a Fifties design enthusiast as well as appeal to those with a more expert interest.
Reasonably priced too. You can buy it for £12.99 from Amazon
Betty Boyns is a relatively new company creating vintage inspired stationery, perfect for putting the finishing touch to a gift.
Based in Cornwall, their designs take their influence from 'retro lifestyles', such as in the Night Out wrapping paper shown above which illustrates a perfectly poised 50s style woman in a suitably period room. The Chin Chin and Cha Cha designs show scenes with a similar feel. They also produce some designs without people in them, including some retro floral patterns.
At the moment, the range includes wrapping paper, cards and gift tags but will be later expanded to include fabrics.
Prices start at 50p for a gift tag while the wrapping paper costs £1.50 for a sheet.
See the range online
The last of the three new George Nelson clock reissues is also the biggest, both in size and in price – the Vitra Flock of Butterflies clock.
Unlike the other two clocks, this is a 1950s design (1955), a metallic geometric frame with a lacquered wood centre, the whole thing a rather large 61cm diameter.
Just over £417 secures you one.
A new table from Knoll for 2010 – but the Girard Table actually dates from the 1940s.
1941 to be precise (although it wasn't in production until 1945), the work of Alexander Girard, offering an asymmetric shape created by those tubular steel legs with a black powder coating and a top in a choice of walnut, natural oak or ebonised oak.
£622 is the starting price.
Produced to coincide with the Milan Furniture Fair, Paul Smith has created this Bauhaus-inspired scarf range, certain to appeal to fans of pre-war modernist design.
Choose from three designs (another is pictured over the page), each one hand numbered and hand stitched and featuring the Paul Smith signature logo in the bottom right corner.
A mix of cotton and silk, the scarves sell for £95 each.
