Category: Homeware

Following on from the jazz musician cushions featured earlier this week, here's something else for fans of old fashioned jazz: this Go Cat Go wallpaper from Lewis and Wood. The paper has white silhouettes, outlined with simple black lines, showing musicians playing on drums and the doubles shown reclining in comfy chair with a pipe. 

It's available in various colours, each with a suitably decadent name. The colour shown is called absinthe but it also comes in pernod, gitanes and vie en rose. 

The paper costs £45.02 per roll from the Fabrics and Papers website

The Indochine Rosewood Writing Chest by Starbay looks like a piece of furniture that has been handed down through generations, but is in fact brand new.

It has been based on designs from the past, so could easily pass for something inherited from a great-grandparent. One side of the chest opens out to form a desktop, and inside there are compartments and drawers to store your stationery and papers. The drawers are in a paler wood that contrasts with the rich rosewood of the chest.

It is available to buy online from Redwood Bay for £1,150.

Ok, so it may not be the most sophisticated item ever, but nothing says hippie interior so much as a String Door Curtain.

I have seen some more refined takes on this, with wooden and beaded designs, but for sheer nostalgic fun, the classic plastic string option is hard to beat. Described as a “cheerful waterfall of colour”, the curtain is 90cm wide with a 2 metre drop that can be cut to fit your doorway.

It costs £19.50 and is available to buy from Dutch by Design.

Graham and Green are stocking an item sure to appeal to any wannabe vintage starlet, this faux snakeskin dressing table. It looks like something from the golden era of Hollywood and would be perfect for enhancing a boudoir. 

The mirror folds up from the body of the table to reveal several compartments and there's also a slide out drawer, so there's plenty of space for storing cosmetics (or perhaps love letters from admirers).

The table costs £525 and the matching seat with a glamorous metal finish, also pictured, costs £198. 

See it online