For our regular feature of a retro cushion, this week I’ve picked these Andrew Martin Cushions.
Many of Andrew Martin’s designs have a retro influence such as the Jumbo Mugs we’ve written about before, but this collection mixes together traditional retro motifs (Stars and Stripes and Union Jack) with folk art from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The appliqué designs are mounted onto either red or brown linen cushions, measuring 60cm square.
The cushions cost £69 each from Amara,
These Beatnik Napkins are a rather silly but fun items for your summer entertaining.
The purple tissue napkins feature a cartoon drawing of a couple of hip Beatniks dressed in the uniform of black. They make the perfect tongue-in-cheek accessory for a barbecue.
They are sold in packs of twenty by Notorious Kitsch, priced £3.50 a pack. There is also a Hula design if retro tiki is more your style.
We’ve featured many a clock on these pages, but designer Adam Kay goes back a little further than the norm for the inspiration for his Ceiling Rose Clock.
This timepiece is a reinvention of the classic Victorian ceiling rose. It has been designed to look just as decorative as it is functional. It is made from lightweight cellular resin and measures 40cm in diameter.
Buy the Ceiling Rose Clock online from Rockett St George priced £47.
Here's a piece of design for kids that would look pretty good adult sized too, the Loni bookcase from Habitat.
Made with Oak veneer, the block like design of the piece gives it a retro look and makes it suitable for holding books as well as toys. And the best bit is that you can stand it the other way round: it works just as well stood vertically as it does horizontally. It measures 90cm across and 61cm across – that's unless you flip it the other way of course!
The bookcase costs £89.
Buy it online
It's the piece of tie-in film merchandise we've all been crying out for – Psycho shower curtain at Urban Outfitters.
Yes, every morning you can relive Hitchcock's 1960s horror classic (which is returning soon as a 50th anniversary Blu-ray special edition), Norman Bates' knife wielding profile sending a shiver down your spine every time you step into the shower. Nice addition of the victim's hands too.
A standard size, you can pick one up online for £20.
Though it may have finished for another year the Chelsea Flower Show is still blooming as part of a new collection at the London Transport Museum.
The products are based around posters from the show dating from 1938 and 1939 by artists credited as 'T V Y' and 'Klara'. Both are suitably floral designs that have been adapted for a wide range of products, from the place mats pictured to t-shirts to, of course, a travel card holder.
Prices start at £4.95 going up to £24.95 for the place mats.
See the range online
