‘Get Real’ is a product series of all natural sweets from Blue Q. Lovely retro looking tins, and little candies with a big taste.
The lemon ginger variety pictured on the right is made from sugar cane juice, real lemon essential oil, ginger root powder and very little else (as they are super natural, natch).
Available online, you can pick up a tin for a mere £2
Find out more at the Sivletto website
Via Crossed Combs
Cake artist? Is there such a thing? Well, yes there is and heading the field is Rachel Mount, who does a nice line in retro designs.
She’s been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sothebys, not to mention featuring in numerous style magazines and A-listers’ parties. But that doesn’t mean she can’t make you something special, like one of the vintage 1950s handbag cakes above or the surfer girls cake after the turn.
Check out Rachel’s website for more images and information, then check your bank account. Prices start from £300 but will undoubtedly rise significantly for more elaborate work.
Find out more at the Rachel Mount website
Looking for something 1950s-inspired for your kitchen but don’t have the budget for a Smeg appliance? How about this Drinking Straw Dispenser instead?
It costs just £5.60, so is a cheap way to add a bit of American diner style to your home and it makes a change from the now ubiquitous tomato-shaped ketchup bottles. Straws are supplied, but you’ll have to find your own favourite classic soda to slurp.
Buy it online at The Cooks Kitchen.
Vinyl products by Brooklyn artist Jeff Davis have been featured here before, but now his range, including the Vinylux Bowls, are available from a UK stockist, Pop Guru.
Helpfully, Pop Guru will let you pick the record you want for the bowl. Already in stock are titles by the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Sly & the Family Stone and the Rolling Stones. If none of those are to your taste, unlike most DJs, they do take requests. The bowls are suitable for serving dry snacks, but with a credible choice of artist, you won’t have to worry about needing to cover up the record’s label.
Available in either a Smooth or Stepped finish design, they cost £20 each.
On the look out for a proper mug for a proper cup of tea? Check out this London Transport Canteens mug.
Made by W2, it’s a modern take on the 1940s and 1950s cup used in the London Transport Canteens, made of stoneware and available in both white and cream.
It’s also fairly cheap, available online for jusst £6.
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.
