Category: Design and Interiors

If you want to be eco-friendly, you need a good all-purpose bag to replace the plastic bags you pick up everytime you visit the supermarket. And certainly worth a look are these Betty Joy retro flowers tote and shopper bags.

Betty Joy do a fine range of vintage-styled toys, accessories, jewellery and homeware, all for very reasonable prices. These bags are sturdy unlined canvas bags, each with an eye-catching floral design in a range of colours. The difference is in size, the shoppers being bigger both in capacity and size of handle. And the shoppers also come with a custom-made apple pin.

Prices are £18.50 for the totes and £20 for the shoppers.

Find out more at the Betty Joy website

A mix of the old and the new with this latest seating from Ikea – the Skruvsta retro-styled swivel chair.

In some ways, it’s a very modern piece – a height-adjustable chair with a steel and plastic base that would be ideal as an occasional office chair. But the actual seat has a 60s-style shape and a 100 per cent cotton fabric covering that wouldn’t have looked out of place in the 70s.

And best of all, with it being an Ikea piece, it’s cheap. You can pick this up at your local store for just £69.90. Or you can have it delivered now that Ikea offers online shopping.

Find out more at the Ikea website

Looking for an authentic 1960s rug? You might want to take a look at the Emilio Pucci Giardino rug.

It uses a print first seen in 1968, an era which saw Pucci rugs described as "floor paintings in wool" and sold in limited editions – if you wanted an original now, you would have to try your luck in one of the leading auction houses.

This reissue is also limited – in this case, just 15 pieces – each handmade and made in France from 100 per cent wool and in nine colours. Price is dictated by size, but starts at £4,200.

Find out more at the 20ltd website

Ships might not need lamps anymore, but that doesn’t mean the concept can’t be updated for the modern home, as is the case with this Stelton Ship´s Lamp.

Designed by Erik Magnussen, it updates the old-style lamp by recreating it in polished stainless steel and using a cylinder design to keep the wind out – which keep the flame in. Ideal for use outdoors, it uses kerosene or lamp oil to keep the fire burning, with a hanger at the top or a flat bottom for a choice of location.

Available in a choice of sizes, it retails online from 317 Euros.

Find out more at the Finnish Design Shop

It isn’t the first time we’ve featured a George Nelson-designed clock, but we love them so much, we make no apologies for throwing in another – in this case, the Vitra Ball Clock.

Amazingly, Nelson designed this in 1948 and it’s still in production by Vitra today, in a choice of bright colours. It’s made of lacquered wood and metal, with a high-grade quartz clockwork, all powered by a single battery (included) and featuring the Vitra badge (in case no-one believes it’s authentic.

You can pick one up online for around £160.

Find out more at the Nest website