The designs of Madeline Rogers, otherwise known as Mibo, are no strangers to this site. This Sew Your Own Lion tea towel is another product that reflects her retro style.
The design functions as a fully functional, 100% cotton tea towel, decorated with a charming image of a 70s style lion. If you fancy being creative, you can the lion out, sew it up and stuff it to make your own toy.
The tea towel costs £11.50.
Order it online
Like the Hepburn Bed that we featured not too long ago, the Hastoe Windsor Chair is a design by Matthew Hilton for De La Espada.
Here he has taken the traditional Windsor Chair and updated it slightly, although it still maintains a midcentury feel to it. The chair is named after the village new High Wycombe where it is produced. It is available in a choice of ash or American black walnut. Not cheap by any standards at £654, you can console yourself with the fact that it is timeless design that won’t fall out of fashion.
Buy it online at Utility Design.
BHS has a surprising number of appealing designs in their Lighting department, including this Adjustable Dome Pendant.
The pendant has a swivel head which allows the light source to be angled, as well as making it look more interesting. It is made of steel and is available in chrome or for a truly retro effect, in the orange finish pictured here. The pendant cost £100, but is currently on offer at £80.
Buy it online at BHS.
If you have a passion for midcentury and modernist architecture and design, you might want to subscribe to the forthcoming Modernist Magazine, although the content is very much focused on the north of England.
The magazine is the work of the Manchester Modernist Society, which organises events around the north of England, focusing on its 20th century art, design and architecture. The magazine follows a similar path, with general articles covering Oscar Niemeyer's Brazil, Esperanto, logos past and original mods, to more specific regional pieces on Liverpool, Manchester and Blackburn's heritage, to name just a few things.
With a foreword by Jonathan Meades, the magazine launches in late June with a launch party in Manchester. But you can pre-order or subscribe now at the website.
The Modernist Magazine website
Via Modculture
This Citroen Brooch is by the Australian designer Naomi Murrell, whose wooden birds we featured last month.
The brooch is in the shape of a vintage Citroen car, cut from rock maple wood with a brass clasp on the back. It would look cute pinned to the lapel of a retro-style jacket. It costs Australian $29 (around £19) plus an extra $9.90 for international shipping (free if you are in Australia).
Buy it online from Naomi Murrell’s Big Cartel store.
Forget 1950s cake style with this Koziol Babell three-tier cake stand.
Making cake and displaying it doesn't have to be about the post-war years and this cake stand shows how 1980s fluorescent bright lights can be combined with the art of cake making (and eating). If you're not much into cake, use the stand to display your ornaments or pretty trinkets.
This funky stand is available from Heal's for £21.00.
