The Foundations Storage Shelving System has been created by the industrial designer Benjamin Hubert for the Heal’s ReDiscovers range.
The handy storage system, which features contrasting coloured box files set against dark shelves, is inspired by Brutalist architecture. It is made from Valchromat, a wood fibre board (from forest waste and recycled pine) coloured with organic dyes and bonded with resin.
It costs £1,495 and is only available from Heal's.
John Lewis currently has a collection of products being promoted under the slogan “A Celebration of Britain”. As you would imagine, the union jack motif features heavily, along with Beefeaters, Marmite and red buses, as is the case with this Double-Decker Bus Doorstop.
The doorstop is shaped like a distinctively British bus, which looks more like the old-fashioned kind rather that what you see on the roads today. For those who are averse to public transport, there is also a London black cab version too.
The doorstops cost £25 and are available exclusively from John Lewis.
If you happen to be a fan of Brutalist architecture, you just might like to snuggle up with these Keeling House and Trellick Tower cushions by Wingate.
Featuring stylised images of the imposing and iconic 1960s structures, both are blue/grey and black prints on a cream cotton cushion and sized around 45 x 45cm.
You can buy both from Not On The High Street, £35 is the price for each. See an image of the other cushion over the page.
The 1950s Scandinavian designs from New House Textiles are frequently featured on this site. The newest additions to their shop take in a more traditionally British direction with a contemporary collection from Charlotte Farmer which includes this Family Favourites tea towel.
The illustration on the tea towel celebrates the rich biscuit heritage of this country with a selection including a malted milk, a Tunnocks tea cake and a party ring. You're sure to find your personal favourite on there. Take a look at the rest of her collection – which also includes canvas bags – for more biscuits, as well as cakes, cutlery and snow globes.
This tea towel costs £9.50.
Buy it online
Fans of vintage Americana will no doubt already be aware of Three Potato Four. Well, Pedlars have asked them to put together two collections for them, bringing their trademark style to the UK.
The collections cover an amazing range. There's gas station signage and fan belts, storage boxes from shoe factories and grocery baskets. Everything is available on a first come, first served basis, so if any of that appeals you should click through to the Pedlars website quickly.
Prices start at £7.50 for vintage model aeroplane propellers and go up to the early hundreds for some of the signs.
See the range online
We’ve featured Olli and Lime’s nursery products here before (duvet covers, wallpaper and wall art) and I’ve always thought their designs are wasted just kept for children. So I’m pleased to see that they expanded to include two of their designs as Kitchen Collections.
George, a lime and milk chocolate flower-like design (pictured here) and Charlie, a darker brown and mustard circles pattern, are both available on a range of kitchen textiles. You can have your napkins (£25 for four) table runner (£35), tea towels (£15 for a pair) and apron (£25) all in matching fabric.
I’m hoping that more products will follow and I’d like to see their range extended to include grown-up sized bedding, but for now, you can buy their kitchen collection from the Olli and Lime website.
