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Tiki drink recipe cards from Sivletto

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Add some swing to a soiree with these Tiki drink recipe cards from Sivletto. 

The cards feature 24 recipes for creating delicious (or lethal) sounding cocktails in your own home, including the likes of the Denby Daiquiri which was created in the 1950s at the Mai-Kai hotel. If this isn't enough to entice you to indulge, they've also asked twelve artists, each with a suitably retro flavour, to illustrate the cards. The likes of Pekka Wizzz, Doug Horne and Lord Dunsby have all obliged meaning you'll come out of the deal with something nice to look at, as well as a likely hangover. 

The original designs were on display at the Sivletto store in Stockholm but you can buy these reproductions for just £16 from their website. 

Buy them online

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Pedrera 1950s PD2 floor lamp by Barba Corsini

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A midcentury design with a modern twist has been reissued once more by Gubi – the Pedrera PD2 floor lamp.

Here's the history. The PD2 was produced for Gaudi’s La Pedrera building in Barcelona in 1955, part of Spanish architect Barba Corsini's renovation of the building (into flats). The light was produced to fit in with the 'feel' of the design, with inspiration taken from Gaudi’s chimneys.

The original design from 1955 was 're-edited' by Jq. Ruiz Millet in 1991 and returns once more today in steel and standing around 112cm high. If you want a piece of history in your home, it retails for £459.

Find out more at the Utility Design website

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Damping wallpaper from Studio Nommo

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Not so long ago we featured the kitsch Kit wallpaper by Studio Nommo, with its retro food packaging pattern. Here's another equally off-the-wall design from the same people, the Damping wallpaper. 

The wallpaper has a montage effect illustration, showing a couple of cheery people and a whole load of retro technology – from a TV and a phone to a computer and camera. In fact, its montage effect and its characters' pride in consumer goods creates an effect not dissimilar to Richard Hamilton's famous 'Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing' collage.

Its design certainly makes it different from the average wallpaper and this is reflected in the price of 65 euros per square metre.

See it on the Studio Nommo website

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Space age Poppins Umbrella Stand by Barber Osgerby

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A modern-day take on that late 60s, early 70s space age look – the Poppins Umbrella Stand by Barber Osgerby.

New this year, but screaming of the past, it's sized at 30 x 33 x 30cm, made of standard injectionmoulded glossy ABS and has room for up to six umbrellas – enough for the wettest of days.

Choose from four colours (although the orange is our favourite), each sells for £83.

Find out more at the Panik Design website

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Trellick Tower façade cushion from Margo Selby and People Will Always Need Plates

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You may think that People Will Always Need Plates have exhausted all the possible designs that come from the Trellick Tower: we've seen cushions, plates and mugs and even a Christmas stocking. However, it's back to this iconic Brutalist building they go for their latest product, a cushion of the Trellick Tower façade, produced in collaboration with Margo Selby. 

Margo's skill lies in weaving – indeed you may have seen her on the BBC Mastercrafts programme – and this cushion shows the façade of the building recreated using woven silk/viscose jacquard. This gives a nice tactile feel and some would almost say an almost welcoming look both to the building and to the cushion.

The cushions are turquoise on one side and white on the other and filled with a feather core. They cost £70 each. 

Buy it from Rume

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Skruvsta swivel armchair at Ikea

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A retro-styled chair with a retro cloth cover – and the Skruvsta swivel armchair at Ikea doesn't cost a fortune.

Love that 60s-style 'tub' shape and of course, the option to swivel, courtesy of the steel frame. But that Krokek fabric, reminiscent of midcentury Scandinavian design, really finishes things off.

If you don't like it, plain finishes are available too, but all are priced the same – £79.99.

Find out more at the Ikea website