Relive childhood days when you used to sit over a chess set for hours on end with this fun chess piece salt and pepper shaker.
It brings some entertainment to the dinner table and is a great talking point. If you are a chess lover or hater, these are a practical and fun way to liven up your meals.
The set is £30 from Joy.
Either use this glass cake stand to wow your friends with your baking abilities or as a pretty edition to a dressing table.
It's inspired by the south of France of the 1950s, and the clear glass model has a lovely pressed design, perfect for any special celebrations or just to make not-so special occasions a little more exciting. If you're going all out, buy one in each size and you will have a double tiered cake.
The small version is 23cm and £15 and the larger stand is 30cm and only costs £20 from The Contemporay Home online.
As flat screen televisions weren’t around in the middle of the last century, it isn’t surprising that there is a limited choice of retro stands., although we have managed to find a few such as the Iconic UKGL-510 TV Stand.
The stand has all the features you need for today’s televisions, including a universal support system, cable management facility and a toughened glass shelf for your DVD player. The retro-influence comes from the walnut finish and subtle wave to the stand back.
It costs £199 and can be ordered from The Plasma Centre via Amazon.
Barneby Gates seem to be the people of the moment to go to for an unusual wallpaper. You may remember their promenade wallpaper which mixed up fashions of different eras: they've now applied the same principle to typography with their Typecast wallpaper.
The paper is covered with a range of vintage fonts, starting at heavy wooden block prints and go through to graffiti type lettering. The ornate feel is enhanced by the use of gold prints. As an added twist, there's apparently a hidden message in the paper – you can't tell from the image, so you'll have a buy a roll if you want to find out what it says.
The paper costs £75 a roll.
Buy it from Rockett St George
This Chh Beep Click print isn't the first time Charlotte Farmer has teamed up with Found Bath – you may remember her festive Rock N Roll Christmas range. That collaboration – showing rock n roll stars alongside now redundant technology - was apparently the inspiration for this print. The redundant technology in this case is the Walkman, a desirable piece of kit in the 1980s.
The image captures the chunky delights of the walkman, complete with the buttons that made the sounds that have given their title to the print. The print has been created using a mixture of screen-printing and embossing to create an unusual and tactile texture to the print.
If you like the look of this, you're advised to snap it up now. It's part of a closed edition of just 10 prints.
The print costs £95.
Buy it online
The Decayed Glamour Cushions by Chocolate Creative, have allowed the designer Margarita Lorenzo to indulge her passion for vintage and antique furniture.
The cushion is handmade and uses 100% linen. Each piece is individually made so the exact design may vary, but rest assured they will all feature illustrations of grand pieces of furniture. Some designs feature just one piece such as a sofa or chandelier, whereas the design pictured here (also available in pink) has a whole collection of furniture.
The cushions cost £45 each from Chocolate Creative.
