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Comic book suitcases and travel bag

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One thing is for sure – you’ll stand out at the airport carrying these comic book suitcases and the matching travel bag.

Both are covered entirely in a design featuring an old Spanish comic book. The suitcases come in two sizes, 50 x 35 x 20cm and 44 x 28 x 17cm, both featuring internal and external zipped pockets and handles to drag them around. They’re priced at £55 and £45 respectively.

The canvas shoulder bag has a hard bottom and studs, internal and external pockets and an adjustable strap. You can pick that up for £20.

Find out more at the Pussy Home Boutique

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink, Homeware

Robert Indiana-style Worktop Saver

Indiana_worktop Robert Indiana’s LOVE image is a pop art classic, designed for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964 for a Christmas card design, then followed as a print, postage stamp and sculpture. In fact we’ve even featured a mirror using the design. Well, Joseph Joseph have now ‘borrowed’ the design for a Robert Indiana-style Worktop Saver.

Obviously this is for the kitchen, so the wording has changed, with LOVE being replaced by COOK. It’s still unmistakably Indiana though, with the added bonus of being a hygienic odour and stain resistant work surface for food preparation and a heat resistant trivet withstanding temperatures up to 280ºC.

Available for a very reasonable £12.

Find out more at the Home Temptations website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Travel

Globetrotter Domino limited edition vintage luggage

20ltd_luggage We have covered Globetrotter luggage previously – it’s a design classic and the best you can buy. Past users have included Winston Churchill and Sir Edmund Hilary (who used them on his Everest expedition), while current users include The Queen. In fact, even James Bond uses Globetrotter in the original Ian Fleming novels.

It might not be cheap, but it is exclusive. And if you want to be even more exclusive, you need to own this Globetrotter Domino limited edition vintage luggage. There’s just 20 of them being made, 10 of the 30-inch suitcases and 10 of the 21-inch trolley cases. In black with chrome detailing, they consist of an ash wood frame that’s covered with a super-strength vulcan fibre material – with a composition that’s a company secret.

If you want one, they retail for £850 and £670 respectively. And they’re likely to sell out quickly.

Find out more at the 20ltd website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Melia Gino space age coffee table

Gino_coffee More space age furniture, this time from Melia, which has produced this Gino coffee table.

Apart from being a centrepiece 70s-style coffee table in a room, the shelving also allows it to be used as a TV or Hi-Fi unit if you so wish. And if the 48cm x 92cm x 49cm size isn’t big enough for your needs, you can also order a custom-made longer version.

Two styles are available – this white one or a high gloss lacquered wood version, with prices starting at £995.

Find out more at the Melia website

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors, Food and Drink, Homeware

Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Can apron and oven glove

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Yet more design for the kitchen, this time courtesy of the late Andy Warhol, with this Campbell’s Soup Can apron and oven glove.

What you see is what you get, an apron with front pocket to keep you clean in the kitchen and an oven glove/mit for picking up your hot dishes. But unlike all the others on the market, these have an iconic pop art design that’s sure to impress the neighbours.

Both are available from Heals, with the apron retailing for £16 and the oven glove for £11.

Find out more at the Heals website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Big Tomato Company’s retro Love mug

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You may remember the Pop Art Gift Boxes we featured some time back from the Big Tomato Company. Well, if you liked those, you’ll probably love the company’s Love mug.

Made from real English creamware in Stock-on-Trent, it features the Love design on both sides and it’s dishwasher safe. Want more? Well, it also comes in a similarly-designed gift box – good enough to buy on its own.

You can pick the pair up for £15.

Find out more at the Luxeville website