Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink, Homeware

Lotta Kuhlhorn pear mugs

Lotta pear

It was only earlier this week we showed you Lotta Kühlhorn's jazzy lindyhop coasters. Here's another design from her, suitable for decorating the retro home, these attractive pear mugs

Like the products featuring her apple design, she uses a simplified, colourful version of the fruit. The pears come in bright pop shades of red, yellow and pink, as well as the more traditional green. Use them them next to your Orla Kiely pear mugs in the kitchen for a very fruity cup of tea. 

The mugs cost £7.25 each. 

Buy them from Illustrated Living

Categories / Homeware

Summer Holiday Mugs

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We’ve made a timely discovery of these Summer Holiday Mugs from Snowden Flood.

There are six designs in total, each one featuring a typical traditional holiday destination: a quaint village, beach huts, seaside cottages, a beach hut on stilts, a pier or a caravan. The illustrations are based on buildings that the artist has seen themselves whilst on holiday, although the pier design is a composite, made up of features from various different piers.

You can buy a set of all six mugs for £70 or individual mugs for £11.95 each directly from the Snowden Flood website.

Categories / Homeware, Music

Record player pillow cover by Caroline Dulko

Dulko record player

It's not too long ago that the imagery of an old record player was resurrected in Ella Doran's new collection of homewares. Now you can get a cushion that also fits into the theme too, courtesy of Caroline Dulko's record player pillow cover

London-based Dulko has used an aerial view of a vintage styled record player design which is printed onto a wool/viscose felt mix material. The retro feel is enhanced by the colours she's used: it's available in either a blue or a dusty terracotta red. 

A nice look but not too cheap either. The pillow cases cost $89.99 each.

Buy them from her Etsy shop

Categories / Homeware

Jane Foster vintage cushions website

Jane foster cushions

We've featured many of Jane Foster's designs on this site before which all draw heavily on her love of vintage fabrics and retro patterns. It's now easier than ever to get a piece of her style, with her new dedicated vintage cushion website

The Jane Foster store has always sold cushions that she'd made from found fabric alongside her own designs. Re-using vintage material as cushion covers is certainly not a unique idea but Foster's great eye for a good pattern leads for a fantastic range to pick from, mostly dating from the 50s, 60s and 70s. If your sofa is looking a little dreary this colourful store will have something to liven it up instantly. She'll even take commissions. 

Prices for the cushions range roughly between £15 and £30, depending on the rarity of the fabric used. 

See the range online

Categories / Homeware

Next classic telephone

Next phone

This telephone from Next is an update of a classic design. Based on the familiar 1960s BT phone, it's been remade in the colours of red, with a white dial detail and a red trim. It's not just the colour scheme that's been given a make-over either: it's actually a push button phone. Still they've retained some more familiar details, keeping the bell ring of the phone.

Next are also selling the same model in a black, red and cream colour combination. Both phones sell for £25.  

Buy it online

Categories / Art and Photography, Homeware

Vintage Wimbledon Poster Products

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With all the attention given to a certain football tournament, it is good to see that the London Transport Museum hasn’t forgotten about that other favourite summer sporting fixture, Wimbledon. Their shop has a range of products featuring vintage Wimbledon Poster designs.

Dating from the 1920s and 1930s, these six classic designs were originally used on posters to tell people who to reach the tennis tournament by public transport. The designs are mainly in shades of green and pink and do look very much of that era. Reproductions of four of the posters are available now as posters priced £13.95, but the designs have also been put onto mugs (£6.99 each or £27.50 for a set of four), placemats (£24.99 for a set of four), coasters (£12.99 for four) and travelcard holders (£4.95).

Visit the London Transport Museum Shop to see the whole collection.