We covered Mibo’s tile tattoos some time back – and if you liked those, I’m guessing you’ll also like Mibo’s retro-styled wallpaper.
All have names that evoke country cottages – but all are actually named after service stations, including the Clacket Lane paper pictured here. A nice mix of brown and red, covered with birds and flowers – a modern take on a 50s-style wallcovering.
A roll is sized at 52cm (width) and 10m (length), priced at £40.
Find out more at the Mibo website
We love a cup of tea or three during the day, which probably makes us a target market for the Jan Constantine Love tea cosy.
Obviously no use to you unless you have a tea pot. But if you do, you can pick up this rather stylish handmade design right now from the V&A, featuring the pop art-style ‘Love’ motif embroidered in 100 per cent wool.
It’s sized at 26 x 20 inches and retails for £65.
A modern piece, but the Stingray rocking chair, designed by Thomas Pedersen, owes a considerable debt to the classic mid-century designs of Charles & Ray Eames.
No prizes for guessing how it got its name – the curves producing a seat shaped not unlike the fish of the same name. And if the legs look familiar, that’s because they’re not a million miles from the ones on the Eames rocker. Still, it’s a winning combination, picking up the Interior Innovation Award at this year’s Cologne show.
And now you can buy one online. It’s available in oak, walnut and the African wood makassar, priced at £1,760.
Find out more at the FunktionAlley website
Not content with offering heritage paints, Little Greene has now moved onto period wallcoverings with its London Wallpapers range.
There are 47 colourways available over eight designs, each inspired by historical documents in the English Heritage archive and spanning the years between 1760 and 1890. In fact, each design has a provenance tracing it back to the original house in which it was discovered.
The designs have been re-scaled and re-coloured and produced using modern manufacturing methods – some, such as the flock papers, reflect closely the archive document whilst others achieve a more modern look through the use of vivid colours and metallic finishes. The two featured above are the floral Broadwick Street (circa 1775) and Great Ormond Street (circa 1890), a plants and parrots design, discovered in a house opposite the children’s hospital. Prices cary depending on your choice of design, contact Little Greene for further details.
Looking for a classic 50s look in your kitchen? Turning it into a full scale, bubblegum pink American Diner might be a little bit on the drastic side, but you can certainly add a pinch of the style with some great retro furniture.
This Corvette set from Cola Red is one of many of their faithfully fifties styled sets. With choices of laminate vinyl colouring you can make this classic look your very own too. This set retails from £739, a pretty reasonable price tag for the closest you’ll get to your very own time machine.
Remember the Isamu Noguchi coffee table we featured last week? Well, over its 60+ year life, it has seen numerous imitators – the most recent being the Objecto Moebius table.
It’s similar, but at the same time very different, standing slightly higher than its inspiration and with a more basic glass top. But the walnut-stained beechwood base is more complex and every bit as eye-catching. And of course, you don’t need to pay a Vitra price tag.
In fact, compared to the £930 cost of the Noguchi, the £399.99 price of the Moebius seems pretty reasonable.
