Category: Design and Interiors

Categories / Design and Interiors

Off The Wall Paisley Flower range by Andrew Tanner

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We have featured Cole & Sons distinctive wallpaper on this site before, and now we have found this great Paisley Flower china range by Andrew Tanner which uses their wallpaper design as inspiration.

Paisley Flower is one of three different patterns which can all be seen in the Cole & Sons New Contemporary and Waldorf Collections. Andrew’s pieces combine surface pattern with minimal form. The result is a collection which is functional and affordable and reflects British design and manufacture, and also the importnat thing for us, features a cool retro pattern.

The large vase is available for £71, the small vase £57, the large bowl £82, and the beakers are the most affordable at £18 each.

You can find out more on the Andrew Tanner website.

Categories / Design and Interiors

Che Guevara rug

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Over the weekend, we featured the Audrey Hepburn rug from Wovenground. Well, if that wasn’t to your taste, there’s now a more radical addition to the range – the Che Guevara rug.

Like the Audrey rug, it is made ethically and hand-tufted in India from New Zealand wool and can be used on the floor or as wall art. As you would expect, it’s in red with black design, along with the gold beret star.

Available as a special order online, it retails for £315.

Find out more at the Wovenground website

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Joan Miró art cushions

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Guaranteed to add some colour to your sofa – this range of Joan Miró-inspired art cushions.

The key word there is "inspired" – these aren’t copies of any particular piece of Miró work, but anyone familiar with the artist’s individual style from the 1920s will presume they are.

Made from 100 per cent wool stitching onto a 100 per cent cotton base, each one measures 45cm square. And they’re available to buy online, priced at £35 each.

Find out more at the online V&A Shop

Categories / Cars and Bikes, Design and Interiors

Officially-licensed Vespa mugs

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Piaggio seems to throw most of its money and energy marketing its modern variations of the scooter these days. But when it comes to merchandising, it’s always about heritage. And that includes these officially-licensed Vespa mugs.

Like all mugs, there’s not a great deal you can comment on, with the exception of the design. And these pass the test, with a choice of the the more straightforward Vespa logo on blue background or the classic scooter on a check background with red detailing.

Whichever one you choose, it will set you back £5.50.

Find out more at the Pussy Boutique website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Gadgets and Tech

Build your own battery-powered Arco Lamp

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Achille Castiglioni’s Arco Lamp is an iconic design – and certainly not cheap to buy. So how about building your own? You can with this Designer Emulation Kit by Mark McKenna for Emulate.

The Aroc is one of three designs available in the kit, the others are Ingo Maurer’s Lucellino and Richard Sapper’s Tizio. All come in kit form (not unlike an Airfix kit). Snap out the parts, put them together, then power them up with a battery. Before you know it, you have a desk-sized design classic.

You can pick up the kit online from Colette, priced at 40 Euros (around £27).

Find out more at the Colette website

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Surrealist cloud light shade

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There’s currently an exhibition of Surrealism at London’s V&A – so the V&A shop is selling surreal items to sit alongside it – including this extremely quirky cloud light shade.

This cloud shade apparently pays homage to Magritte, whose floating clouds were a recurrent theme in many of his paintings of the period. And if you want to keep theme going, painting your walls in a sky-like blue and white would really freak the neighbours out.

Sized at 42cm x 27cm and made from rigid plastic, it retails for £45.

Find out more from the V&A website