You may remember Lucie Sheridan's distinctive moose head which we featured just before Christmas. Well, for perhaps an easier way to get her designs into your home, take a look at this Tea T'Owl.
The clue is in the name: it's a tea towel featuring some of our favourite birds, owls. The owls are depicted in a very stylized way with the orange and brown colour scheme enhancing the retro feel.
The towel costs £9.50.
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Another new way to try and store your stuff in style with the vintage-style Union Jack trunks at Graham and Green.
You get two trunks for your money, at differing sizes: the large is 61cm high and the smaller trunk is 51cm high. The vintage look comes courtesy of the canvas of the trunks which has been deliberately distressed to make it look old and well travelled. Inside the hinged lid is a faded image of the Union Jack to tap into that current interiors trend. They're also selling a longer and shallower trunk with a similar look.
Vintage style apparently doesn't come cheap as the set of two trunks costs £795.
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World Cup fever is taking over the web, but we’ll keep our coverage here to the strictly nostalgic, as with this July 1966 Tax Disc Mug.
The significance of the date is, of course, England’s historic (and unlikely to be repeated anytime soon0 World Cup win, when they beat Germany 4-2. If you needed that explanation of the date then this product probably isn’t for you, but the same seller also has more mugs with other culturally significant dates. Choose from May 1977 (Star Wars released at the cinema), June 1976 (heatwave in Britain) and August 1963 (the Great Train Robbery).
The mugs cost £9 from Retrophenia’s shop on Not on the High Street.
The appeal of this retro Mini Cushion is in its simplicity.
Rather than the typical red, white and blue union jack colours that these designs normally favour, the cushion is plain white with the mini reproduced as a line drawing. The outline is given a stitch effect to add a bit of extra interest to the design. The cushion is a 45cm square, made from a cotton mix and filled with feathers.
It costs just under £25 from Dwell.
The Mod Target gets a new look with Karen Hilton's White on White target cushion.
The design has been recreated on the cushion cover, using unbleached cotton and white felt instead of the familiar red, white and blue. The result still keeps the sixties feel but gives the cushion more of a space age look. Fancy seeing it in some other colours? Take a look at Hilton's other designs which use brights such as hot pink and yellow to create cushions with added Pop.
Each cushion is handmade and costs £34.
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Inspired by the range of tourist iconography available in Great Britain, Make Me Iconic attempts to do the same with some of Melbourne's landmarks. They've commissioned young designers to create new artwork celebrating the history of the city, resulting in products like this Plastic Tea Towel.
The design shows the Nylex Plastics sign, giving the time and temperature to residents since it was built on top of barley silos in 1961. Other designs focus on the city's milk bars, skyline and transport network and are shown across a range of cushions, prints and mugs, as well as the tea towels. Each product comes packaged with some information on the history of the object it illustrates.
This design costs AUS $25.
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