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1950s Ribb dinnerware by Stig Lindberg

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We have featured some of the classic Stig Lindberg designs in the past, the Bersa and the Adam and Eva for example, but we haven't featured this 1950s classic – the Ribb dinnerware by Stig Lindberg.

The Ribb dinnerware from Gustavsberg was introduced under the name Spisa Ribb during the H55 exhibition in Helsingborg, Sweden in 1955, but that striped design went missing for some years until its recent reissue. Perfecct for a vintage tea party, you can pick up a coffee and tea cup (with saucers), along with two sizes of plate, all made from genuine bone china and all dishwasher and microwave safe.

Prices vary depending on what you buy, but sell from around 37 Euros per piece.

Find out more at the Scandinavian Design Center website

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Missoni Home Bianconero range

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Missoni's distinctive clothes and textiles crop up time and time again on this site but their home products are also well worth a look, especially when the designs are as appealing as the Bianconero range.

The tea set has the bold use of pattern and the retro feel you'd associate with the brand. Each object has a slightly different look: from the Op Art style waves on the coffee pot to the Pop flowers on the mug. The black and white colour scheme helps to unify all the designs. 

Prices, as you'd expect from a designer brand, are high. They range from £108.50 for the teapot to £29 for the mug. However, they'll probably look as stylish in another thirty years as they do now, so perhaps you could consider it an investment. 

See them online at Occa-Home

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Marks & Spencer retro-styled Ceramic Engraved Vase

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A week or so back, we featured the M&S Folk vase, complete with a design that was a throwback to a bygone age. Here's another – the Marks & Spencer Ceramic Engraved Vase.

It harks back to the studio pottery of the late 60s and early 70s, with a handmade look that's no accident – it is actually handmade. For your money, you get that distinctive engraved design for the lower part and the contrasting tall neck, combining to produce something that would look rather smart on your vintage sideboard.

Cheap too – just £19.50.

Find out more at the Marks & Spencer website

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Liberty of London for Target range

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It would be pretty unimaginable for Liberty of London to do a range for Tesco in the UK for example, but it doesn't seem to be an issue to team up with a large retailer in the US. In this case Target, which will be the proud recipient of Liberty-designed home essentials.

It's a shame it doesn't offer them in the UK, as we suspect most of these designs would be snapped up, as they almost certainly will be across the Atlantic. Classic Liberty prints will be used on bedding, gardening tools, planters, piggy banks, lamps, candles, storage boxes, ceramic and melamine dishes, and best of all, the bicycle pictured above.

Prices are good too, with most accessories selling for under $10 or $20,a quilt is yours for $70 and that beach cruiser bike is a very tempting $200. See over the page for more images and if you happen to be coming to the UK in the coming months, try and fit a bike in your suitcase will you?

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Horrockses Fashions’ inspired products at the V&A

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Vintage clothing connoisseurs will no doubt be aware of Horrockses Fashions. Started in 1946, the company specialised in full-skirted, colourfully-printed dresses. The company will be the subject of an exhibition opening at the Fashion and Textiles Museum, Bermondsey in July but if you can't wait that long you may be interested to learn that some of their bold patterns are being reproduced on products for the V&A. 

The V&A now holds the archives for Horrockses Fashions and have drawn on some of their textile designs for some Spring inspiration. The company had a long history of working with great textile designers and the V&A's range includes this apron in a Rose pattern that was originally designed by Pat Albeck in 1953. The pattern is also available on a (oh so twenty-first century) tote bag. 

Pat Albeck is actually Emma Bridgewater's mother-in-law (you can see some of her contemporary designs on their website), so perhaps these designs could also offer a little inspiration for this Mother's day? 

The apron costs £15 while the bag costs £10. 

Buy it from the V&A Shop

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Stig Lindberg 1950s Adam and Eva dinnerware

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Scandinavian classics and still available to buy today – the Adam and Eva dinnerware by Stig Lindberg.

That's right, masculine and feminine dinnerware, but to be honest, there's very little difference between the two 1959 designs. The Eva has the white spots on a red background, while the Adam goes for a monochrome 'cobalt blue' dots in the white background (see an image of that over the page).

All the pieces are made from bone china, which are dishwasher and microwave safe and all are marked with the year of manufacture by maker Gustavsbergs Porslinsfabrik. Prices? Well, that varies depending on your choice of large or small plate, tea cup or coffee cup. But the entry level cost is just over 36 Euros per piece.

Find out more at the Scandinavian Design Center website

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