Tag: 1930s

Categories / Design and Interiors

Heal’s antique selling exhibition

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Heals antique sale

We've already featured quite a few of the products and projects Heal's have lined up to celebrate their bicentenary. If you're based near London and have an interest in their fine furniture heritage, you may want to pop along to their latest event, an antique selling exhibition. 

Launched on Sunday at the Tottenham Court Road store it features Heal's furniture ranging from the Arts and Crafts period up to the 1950s. The examples pictured above all date from the 1930s with the exception of the cupboard which was made in the 1920s. 

No indication of prices but they are likely to be pretty pricey. However, if you fancy a visit to get some inspiration from original good quality pieces, the exhibition is on until 3 April. 

Find out more from the Heal's website

Categories / Art and Photography, Books

Masters of Early Russian Children’s Books prints

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Lebedev print

If you're organising your new year courtesy of the Redstone Press 2010 diary we featured a little while back, you may be interested to learn Redstone have collaborated with Magma to produce seven Masters of Early Russian Children's Books prints, based on some of the 1920s and '30s illustrations reproduced in the diary.

The prints are all striking and unusual images and include Vladimir Lebedev's 1929 illustration of woman driving to train station from 1929, shown above. Each print is hand-screen printed as part of a limited edition of 100 and costs £30. 

Buy it from the Magma website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Walthamstow dog track plate

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Walthamstow dog track plate

Walthamstow's famous dog racing track closed down in August last year to great sadness so the site could be redeveloped into housing. As well as being known for its racing, the stadium became known in its own right, being the location for much of the artwork of Blur's Parklife album amongst many other things. The stadium is commemorated in this dog track china plate by Alice Mara.

The stadium opened in 1933 and the digitally printed illustration shows the stadium's iconic Art Deco Grade II listed façade, as well as a lone, colourful greyhound. The plate costs £80. 

Buy it from Notmassproduced

Categories / Design and Interiors

Canning and Sheridan Deco-style Central cabinet

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Canningsheridan cabinet

If you've been inspired by BBC Four's current series 'Art Deco Icons' and want to get the look for your own home, you may be interested in Canning and Sheridan's Golden Age collection which includes the Central cabinet, featured above. 

Inspired by the glamour of the 1930s, it's a multi-doored angled cabinet made in a choice of either natural or dark stained palisander. There's also a choice of handles – natural brass, or for full on Deco-style, chrome. This cabinet is 125cm high and costs an eye-watering enough £8995 but if you are thinking really big there's a larger size available too for £11, 495. Rather appropriately that model is called the Grand Central. 

Buy it online

Categories / Books, Design and Interiors, Kids

The Redstone Press 2010 Russian diary

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If you are already looking ahead to next year and want to stock up on your stationery now, you may be interested in The Redstone Press' 2010 Russian diary. If you've ever bought one of Redstone's diaries before you'll know what a visual treat they are and this one is no different. Its illustrations are collected from 1920s and 1930s children literature from the Soviet Union and include works by artists such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitzky. The images give a glimpse not only into the imaginary worlds of children's books but also the idealism of the period. 

The diaries are sturdy and spiral bound and cost £14.95 for a year's worth of inspiration. 

Buy it online

Categories / Travel

Art deco-styled Midland Hotel in Morecambe – now under new management

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We’re big fans of the art deco-styled Midland Hotel in Morecambe, but as our review said, we didn’t think the service (the restaurant in particular) was any match for the stylish surroundings. That could be about to change.

Owners Urban Splash has partnered up with high-end hotel group English Lakes Hotels, maintaining its ownership, but giving over the management and marketing of the hotel to English Lakes. That hopefully means someone answering emails, a restaurant on a par with the surroundings and a hitch-free online booking service. Essentially, dealing with all the things that have let it down so far in our eyes (we’re presuming they can’t do anything about Morecambe itself).

Saying that, the hotel is still worth a visit, especially if you love art deco architecture, retro-styled interiors and bracing seafront walks. You can check out our full review here or visit the Midland website below.

Midland Hotel website