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Paint-Your-Own flying ducks

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Flying ducks

Flying ducks are forever associated with Hilda Ogden's sitting room on Coronation Street and many other hallways across Britain in the sixties and seventies. Here's a chance to update a classic, with Paint-Your-Own flying ducks. 

Yes, it's three plain ducks with mini paint pots so you can interpret the ducks as you choose. Given the colours of paint available it looks like the finished result isn't going to be too naturalistic. 

A bit of silly fun, you can buy the set from Urban Outfitters, a shop that seems to specialise in silly fun gifts, for £20.  

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Walthamstow dog track plate

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Walthamstow dog track plate

Walthamstow's famous dog racing track closed down in August last year to great sadness so the site could be redeveloped into housing. As well as being known for its racing, the stadium became known in its own right, being the location for much of the artwork of Blur's Parklife album amongst many other things. The stadium is commemorated in this dog track china plate by Alice Mara.

The stadium opened in 1933 and the digitally printed illustration shows the stadium's iconic Art Deco Grade II listed façade, as well as a lone, colourful greyhound. The plate costs £80. 

Buy it from Notmassproduced

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Canning and Sheridan Deco-style Central cabinet

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Canningsheridan cabinet

If you've been inspired by BBC Four's current series 'Art Deco Icons' and want to get the look for your own home, you may be interested in Canning and Sheridan's Golden Age collection which includes the Central cabinet, featured above. 

Inspired by the glamour of the 1930s, it's a multi-doored angled cabinet made in a choice of either natural or dark stained palisander. There's also a choice of handles – natural brass, or for full on Deco-style, chrome. This cabinet is 125cm high and costs an eye-watering enough £8995 but if you are thinking really big there's a larger size available too for £11, 495. Rather appropriately that model is called the Grand Central. 

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Charley Harper influenced Bärbar tray from Ikea

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Barbar tray

An attractive new product from Ikea that manages a whole lot of cheep on the cheap. This Bärbar tray is covered with colourful images of birds that has more than a little look of Charley Harper about it.

It measures 33cm square and costs just £4.99. Sadly, you'll have to brave your local store to pick one up as it doesn't seem to currently be available through their website. 

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Libby LED library table lamp by Overend Studio

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Libby

A modern take on a vintage classic – the Libby LED library table lamp by Overend Studio.

It's an update on the early 20th century library light, stripping down the 'fuss' of the original and adding efficient warm-white LEDs, so that shot of light only uses 2w of power.

The shade is made of bent aluminium sheet, the frame from heat bent steel, while the wood features are from FSC-certified European oak. If that all appeals to your eye, you can pick one up for around £200.

Overend Studio website

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The Beatles Stereo USB Apple – 14 digital albums on a fruit-shaped USB device

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Beatles

The Beatles hierarchy seems less than keen to officially offer the band's back catalogue for digital download, but it has sanctioned this rather cool little release – The Beatles Stereo USB Apple.

Yes, shaped like an Apple (of course), this limited edition launch offers 14 digitally remastered stereo albums, CD 'visual elements', 13 mini-documentary films about the albums, replicated original UK album art, rare photos and expanded liner notes, all on one USB device.

A specially designed Flash interface has been installed, and the 16GB USB’s audio and visual contents will be offered in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats, fully compatible with PC and Mac. 30,000 of these will be made, with 100 available for pre-order in the UK. Price? £200. If you're in the US or elsewhere, check the official site for your own ordering details.

The Beatles website