Categories / Architecture, Food and Drink, Homeware

The Macbeth pub tea towel from Soulful Toaster

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Soulful Toaster are currently stocking a couple of tea towels featuring London architectural landmarks. One shows the Trellick Tower but as that building comes up so often on this site, how about going a bit further back in time with this tea towel showing the Victorian Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London? 

It's a fascinating building: originally being built as a gin distillery, using water from its own underground spring. The words 'Hoxton distillery' can still be read at the top of the building, and indeed at the top of this tea towel. It's now a pub and a live music venue (it also gained notoriety for Amy Winehouse's ex-husband attacking its landlord). The design is screen-printed onto white cotton and is made, appropriately enough, in East London. 

This tea towel costs £9.50, as does the design showing the Trellick Tower.

Buy it online

Categories / Homeware

Cattelan Italia Echo Bar Unit

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Cattelan Italia’s may be described as contemporary, but when it comes to a piece like the Echo Bar Unit, it looks more than a little bit retro, perhaps because the idea of a home bar is a rather 1970s fashion.

The unit is cylindrical and on wheels, and comprises of a wooden top and bottom combined with aluminium sliding shutters. The wooden parts are available in a choice of wenge or cherrywood, adding to the retro look.

The unit is available to buy from Mac and Mac Interiors, priced £800.

Categories / Homeware, Kids

DwellStudio Transportation Duvet Set

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DwellStudio’s Transportation Duvet Set is designed for young children in that phase when they move from cots to a proper bed, but the design of retro vehicles is likely to appeal to parents.

The pattern is made up of a range of different modes of transport, including buses, trams, cabs, and even a zeppelin, within coloured squares in equally retro shades. A set consisting of a duvet cover, fitted sheet and two pillowcases costs $166 (around £120) for the twin size and an extra $14 for the full size.

Buy online from Unica Home.

Categories / Homeware

Graphic Numbers Clock from Cox & Cox

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This is a new clock from Cox & Cox is very modern with a hint of retro typeface thrown in. The central casing houses the movement and clock hands, whilst the numbers are self-adhesive and very easy to apply. 

The clock comes with a positioning guide to make it easy to get the graphics in the right place, which is very reassuring as it would be really annoying to end up with wonky numbers.

The clock is priced at £65 and available from Cox & Cox.
Categories / Homeware

Wish You Were Here pin-up girl bed sheets from Sin in Linen

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Looking for something suitably saucy to pair with your Dupenny '50s housewives wallpaper? How about the Wish You Were Here bed sheet set, made by the wonderfully named Sin in Linen? The range was inspired by handwritten postcards and shows retro pin-up girls in various alluring poses on a black and white background. 

Sin in Linen was started by Sandy Glaze with the aim of producing slightly more adventurous bed linen. She's taken her cue from the 1940s and '50s and the collections also include rockabilly-style tattoo and leopard print designs. 

Prices for the Wish You Were Here range start at $29 for a pillow case and go up to $140 for a double duvet set. If you like the design it's also sold on a shower curtain and as a curtain panel. 

Find out more online

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Wilhelm Wagenfeld WA 24 Globe lamp Globe Lamp

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Wilhelm Wagenfeld designed the WA 24 Globe Lamp in 1924, when he was just 24 years old. It was created when he had just come to the Bauhaus workshop and made in order to complete his study and become a master craftsman.

The lamp available to buy today from the Art Deco Design Shop has been inspired by Wagenfeld’s successful design. It is available in two options, either with a metal base or with a glass base as shown here, priced £183 and £201 respectively.

Visit the Art Deco Design Shop to buy.