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Ingela P Arrhenius tea towels at Lagom

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Img_drawYour kitchen would be overflowing if you bought all of the tea towel designs we recommended to you, but when, like the Ingela P Arrhenius tea towels at Lagom, they're an affordable way to buy great design they are hard to resist. 

You may remember Ingela's name as we featured her retro-styled artwork for kids a little while back. Here she translates those 1950s and 60s influence into something for the grown-ups too. Like the Lotta Kuhlhorn design we also flagged up, this tea towel is based around a well-stocked kitchen cupboard. Mixing in some colourful retro kitchenware, it's sure to brighten up the dullest spot of washing up. 

Printed onto 100% linen, it costs £10.52. 

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Cressida Bell Ibis Cushions

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British textile and interiors designer, Cressida Bell has an enviable heritage in the arts – her grandmother was the artist Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf was her aunt. With such Bloomsbury Group luminaries as family, it is inevitable that hints of their style would be apparent in Cressida’s work, but her designs have enough charm in their own right, as you can see from these Ibis Cushions.

Available in a choice of red or blue, the cushion covers hand printed on 100% linen and feature a quirky vintage-style illustration of the Ibis bird. The cushion covers are sold without pads, but fit a 41cm square cushion. Buy the cushions online directly from Cressida Bell’s website, priced £41 each.

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

UNA Space-Saving Coffee Table Set

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Following the Full Moon Coffee Table set mentioned last week, here is another space-saving furniture set, but with a very different look.

The UNA set, designed by Zita Menyhart, has that great space-age futuristic retro look, rather than the mid-century style that these sets usually adopt. It looks as if it is made from some sort of moulded plastic and conists of a coffee table and two stools. The base of the table acting as either storage space for magazines or can be used with the additional ice bucket to keep drinks cool. It is available in five colours, although the pure white is best for the space age look.

It costs just under £2,000 from the Hidden Art Shop.

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Green Retro Desk Lamp

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This Retro Desk Lamp from Idyll Home is pretty much your standard desk lamp design, with an adjustable head that allows you to change the angle of the light. What distinguishes it, is the unusual choice of colour, a vintage-looking shade of green, which gives it a much more retro look than if the lamp had been in the usual black, chrome or red.

It measures 55cm high when fully extended and uses a 40 watt bulb or low energy equivalent.

It costs £129 from the Idyll Home website.

Categories / Art and Photography, Homeware

This is Tomorrow tea towel

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This is Tomorrow tea towel

We've already highlighted the reprint of the 1956 This is Tomorrow exhibition catalogue, re-printed to accompany a new display about the exhibition that's on at the Whitechapel gallery. That exhibition is frequently held up as the beginning of British Pop Art. What better way to mark the impact of Pop Art onto everyday life than buying this accompanying This is Tomorrow tea towel? 

The tea towel reproduces some simple black and white artwork from the original exhibition. Couple that up with the distinctive 'This is Tomorrow' typography and you've got a striking piece of design. Fans of art and cooking will also be pleased to hear that an apron, again reproducing work from the show, is also available. 

The tea towel costs £18. 

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Orla Kiely Car Park Bedding half price through Dot Maison Group Buy

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It is likely that you will have already seen Orla Kiely’s Car Park Bedding range, featuring a repeating pattern of white retro cars on a bright coloured background, but this week you have the opportunity to buy it at half price through Dot Maison’s Group Buy scheme.

Each week the Group Buy scheme has a different offer, and this week is the Car Park Bedding range in the mandarin orange colourway, in either a single, double or king size set. The sets are offered at this bargain price, but to activate the offer, there needs to be a minimum of 10 purchases for each size. Once ten customers have expressed an interest, then the deal is on, running until the end of the working week or until their stocks run out.

The single duvet set (with one pillowcase) costs £37, the double set £42 and the kingsize £47 (both sold with two pillowcases). Visit the Dot Maison Group Buy section for further details.