Very simple, but very effective – that just about sums up this Paul Rand Dada poster from Habitat.
It’s actually a book cover (unsurprisingly for a book about the Dada movement), designed by the noted American graphic artist in 1951 and reproduced by Habitat as this 50cm x 70cm poster.
And you can pick up this little piece of history fairly cheaply at just £15.
Find out more about the poster at the Habitat website
More retro Christmas cards, this time from Paperchase, which is selling these 50s-style charity Christmas cards.
Three good points here. Firstly, that design, which is colourful and quirky, with 50s-style graphics. Secondly, these are charity cards, with 45p from each pack going to Hearing Dogs For Deaf People.
And finally, the price. This is a pack of 10 cards and it retails for just £2.75, so a real bargain too. You can pick them up from a Paperchase store or from the Paperchase store at Amazon.
If you’re not familiar, Sir Terry Frost was an early and influential British abstract artist – and this PVC bag uses a detail from one of his images.
That image is Orchard Tambourine. The bag itself uses just dome of the ‘patches’, printing them onto a cotton drill bag using a hard-wearing PVC coating.
It’s sized at 30 x 34cm, so pretty large. And it’s available from the Royal Academy of Arts for £25.
Find out more at the Royal Academy of Arts website
As we’re on a dark wood theme, it’s perhaps a good time to flag up one of the smartest small-size radios around – the Vita Audio R1 DAB/FM radio.
You can get it in a variety of finishes, but the two for me are the wood finishes – walnut and cherry (pictured here). Not just pretty faces either, the radios have DAB and FM reception, clock and alarm, 10 station presets, information display, cool dial control and gold-plated outputs.
Sized at 17 x 13 x 13cm, you can pick one up for £159.99.
A dark wood and chrome combination always ticks the boxes for us, so we’re quite taken by the Morton walnut veneer console.
That dark wood is walnut and matched up with the chrome frame and minimalist sliding drawer, it really does produce that late 60s Merrow look.
Sized at 76 x 120 x 45cm and ideal for a variety of purposes, you can pick up the console online for £330.
Want to really make a feature of a feature wall? You could invest in this scratch and sniff pop art wallpaper, courtesy of Flavor Paper.
If the pop art-style bright blue background and contrasting yellow of the bananas don’t grab the attention of your visitors, the ability to smell the bananas on display surely will. The paper is hand screen printed, with each roll around 27 inches wide and 15ft long.
The downside, as you might have guessed, is the price. It retails for $360 per roll, which is around £180. But to balance that out, a part of the profits goes to the Human Rights Campaign and you’ll probably be the only person on the street with intentionally-smelly wallpaper.
