Looking for something appropriate for the top of your vintage sideboard? This Habitat Saskis vase should fit the bill.
Loving those 1960s curves, very reminiscent of vintage Scandinavian pieces. Only this is a modern design in coloured glass, with a clear glass rim.
You can pick it up in the white above, green or grey, all sized around 16.5 cm high and selling for £22.
Here's another stylish item to put in the 'retro cushions using the word love' file. It's a surprisingly perennial theme that continues to bear fruit, as in this Love tattoo cushion from Rockett St George. This one looks like a classic tattoo design with its heart, love scrolls and swallow motifs. The vintage feel is enhanced by the embroidered flower and the back which is fastened using ribbon bows.
No, nothing to do with the headline-cashing Irish singer, the Design House Stockholm Bono mugs are an altogether more stylish proposition.
Very much influenced by mid-century Scandinavian design, the Bono mugs come in a set of four (two pictured above, two over the page), all hand-painted, all made of bone china and all certain to impress your guests next time anyone calls round for a drink.
This particular four pack retails for 61 Euros, check out the Bono bowls too for more of the same.
A nice example of retro-styled design from Habitat, these rather stylish Balun vases.
Orange, purple and grey are the suitably retro colour choices, with the glass vases themselves being mouth blown and with a quirky concave/convex shape that screams the mid-century era.
Standing at 35cm tall, they retail for £19.
New House Textiles have produced a great range of homewares that utilise Marianne Nilsson's herring design from the 1950s.Reflecting the Scandinavian love of pickled herrings, the design uses a very simple, but effective, repeating graphic of fish. They've used the design across a variety of objects including pot stands, table runners and napkins and also on the storage jar pictured, which costs £19.
Emma Bridgewater’s designs often have a nostalgic look to them and her Union Jack products continue in this tradition.
The collection includes various sized mugs (including a 1 pint mug for the big tea and coffee drinkers), plates, tins, a teapot and my favourite item, this old-fashioned style biscuit barrel. Prices start from £3.50 for a Melamine Beaker, going up to £49.95 for the teapot. The pint mug costs £21.95 and the biscuit barrel £13.
To view the whole collection online, visit Emma Bridgewater’s website.
