Innermost continues its reputation for innovative and interesting designs with this Bubbly Chic Pendant. It's designed by Mireille Gourbin and while the shape recalls sixties/seventies bubble glass light shades, it's actually created using acrylic and linen fibres.
The simple white outlines and colour scheme of Skinny laMinx's Borrowed Spoons design make it look like a classic, Lucienne Day style, 1950s design. In fact it's a contemporary piece inspired by all the spoons in Skinny laMinx's, aka South African designer Heather Moore's, house.
Shown here in the melamine green and enamel red colour options, it's appropriately available on the items most likely to come into contact with your own assortment of spoons: tea towels for £8 each or a cook's apron for £18
See them on the H is for Home website
The classic Ercol Quaker Chair has been given a makeover by the people at Orange and Brown.
Rather than the usual wooden finish, the mid-century chairs have been professionally restored and sprayed in a choice of seven colours. Choose between the armchair or the armless version in white, black, yellow, pink, red, purple or blue. They also have a limited run of Ercol rocking chairs and the double “Love Seat” available in powder blue.
Prices range from £220 to £290 with free delivery for shoppers in London or Bournemouth. Visit the Orange and Brown website for further details.
If you are looking for a quick, cheap and practical way to liven up your kitchen, Berry Red are selling these stylish utensil jars. The Berry Red website describes them as Scandinavian looking and they do remind me of Grete Prytz Kittelsen's 'lotus' pattern that she designed for Catherineholm, Norway in the 1960s. Even if you aren't completely convinced by that comparison, their simple pattern and colour will slot in easily to many different style kitchens.
They come in three sizes, perfect for all your storage needs, and range in cost from £8 for the small jar up to £15 for the large jar.
Buy them online
The company Contraforma was just established in this decade, so its Mom Rocking Chair obviously isn’t a vintage design, but still it would sit well in a retro lounge.
Its simple design is made more appealing by its soft wool covering and the addition of a distinctive motif to the sides and backrest. The chair can be upholstered in any two of choice of 60 colours of Europost fabric, which gives a huge amount of choice to ensure it fits with your décor.
All of this great design does however come at a price – £1,370 no less. If you are undeterred by the price, visit Moleta Munro for further details.
Here's a pretty and very feminine 1950s style fabric from Kokka. Called the Maison design it shows a cutaway into various scenes of a house with a definite vintage French feel (though the company is Japanese): there's a ironwork table set with a wine bottle and glass, a dressing table with accoutrements, and a frock hanging up, waiting to be accessorised.
Printed on 100% cotton, it comes in the blue colourway shown and also in pink. It costs £3.60 per fat quarter (quarter of a yard).
