Tag: 1940s

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

‘Why not a canteen job?’ London Transport tea towel

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Canteen tea-towel

If you find yourself chained to the kitchen in a bid to feed your hungry family, this London Transport tea towel will certainly give you food for thought. The tea towel shows an advert from 1949 which asks 'Why not a canteen job?'. The design is typically of the period and it lists the benefits on offer to canteen workers. The offer of extra pay for Sundays and relief duties will certainly seem appealing if your culinary efforts go unappreciated! 

The tea towel is on sale from Whitbread Wilkinson for £5 who also reproduce the same design on an apron for £10.

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Eames Small Dot mugs

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Eames small dot
Add some style to your morning cuppa with these Eames Small Dot Mugs. The Small Dot pattern is based on a textile design Ray Eames produced in 1947 for a competition at MoMA. The design looks so quintessentially Eames that it's hard to believe that at the time it didn't go into production, only recently having been reproduced from archive drawings. 

The mugs are available in red, charcoal or orange and cost £7.99 each. 

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Categories / Art and Photography

Fiona Hewitt’s Pop Dumpling Dynasty print

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Dumpling

Fiona Hewitt is the illustrator behind the Dumpling Dynasty whose kitsch kits are for sale throughout the UK (we featured their shoe shine kit early last year). The Boxbird store also has a selection of her prints online, including the Pop print shown above. 

The giclee print, a fake advert for a sickly looking pink drink, features an overly cute boy and his loyal donkey and shows her usual beguiling mix of influences: everything from Chinese communist propaganda alongside advertising and packaging from the 40s and 50s. If you decide this look works for you, this particular print costs £200. 

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