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Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware, Music

Vinyl chopping board

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As well as coasters, book-ends, Christmas tree decorations and actually listening to the stuff, it seems there's another vinyl-inspired item available for the home: this vinyl chopping board.

Yes, this board comes in the shape of a traditional vinyl record. Rather than having the song title and artist on the label, it's decorated with a nice, bright picture of a tomato instead. You won't be able to put it on a turntable but it's sure to inspire hours of music relating pun fun as you are chopping up your onions,

This slice of kitchen fun costs £15. 

Buy it from Urban Outfitters

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Vintage Reclaimed Blackboards

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Although based in Northumberland, the aesthetic behind most of Ghost Furniture’s products is decidedly French.

One of their product ranges consists of Vintage Reclaimed Blackboards, which are created using frames and blackboards found in flea markets and shops in or around Paris. The frames are painted with a matt paint mixed especially for Ghost Furniture in France. The blackboard pictured here also includes a piece of vintage lace and a vintage tin suitable for storing the Vintage French Dressmakers Chalk, which is supplied with each blackboard. This particular example is priced £65, but others in the range cost up to £125.

Buy the vintage blackboards online from Ghost Furniture’s store at Not on the High Street.

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Comback Chair by Patricia Urquiola for Kartell

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Going further back than is usual for our design influences, the Comback Chair by Patricia Urquiola for Kartell looks back to the classic 18th Century Windsor chair design.

The backrest of the chair is made up of seven teeth, which are spaced out to be ergonomically correct. Deviating from the classic form, the chair is made from plastic, in a range of colours, including the interesting options of orange and mustard.

The chair is not in production yet, so no price details are available at the moment (I doubt it will be cheap ), but you can register your interest now with Utility Design so that you don’t miss out when it is available.

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Porada Empire Sideboard

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We haven’t featured a sideboard for a couple of weeks, so what about the Porada Empire Sideboard?

Porada’s designs are rooted in the Italian artisan tradition, but mixing wood with more modern materials. The Empire Sideboard gives a nod to retro styles with the concave feature on its doors and the colour of the doors (walnut as pictured here, or a more space-age looking white glass option), but it is updated with the mirrored frame.

Prices start from £3,444 for the walnut version, with the white gloss version costing just over £3,700. Buy online from Mac & Mac Interiors

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware, Toys and Games

Pac-Man ice tray

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Another item to add to the rush of Pac-Man products that currently seems to be hitting the high street, this time a Pac-Man ice tray.

For a now just-about grown up generation of gamers, this suitably bright yellow plastic tray allows you to make ice cubes in the shape of Pac-Man and the ghosts (complete with their blank eyes). You could could even get creative with your food colourings and colour the ice to match the game characters.  

The ice tray costs £9. 

Buy it from Urban Outfitters

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Jonathan Adler’s Peter Rug

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This midcentury looking rug is Jonathan Adler’s Peter Rug.

I’m not sure who it is named after and I think it “Peter” may be the name of the pattern, which appears on other Jonathan Adler products too, rather than the name of rug itself.

The retro influenced pattern consists of brown squares containing smaller red squares. The rug measures 4ft by 6ft and is handmade from llama wool. It costs $600 (around £400) from The Fusion Company.