Categories / Architecture, Design and Interiors

Trellick Tower façade cushion from Margo Selby and People Will Always Need Plates

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You may think that People Will Always Need Plates have exhausted all the possible designs that come from the Trellick Tower: we've seen cushionsplates and mugs and even a Christmas stocking. However, it's back to this iconic Brutalist building they go for their latest product, a cushion of the Trellick Tower façade, produced in collaboration with Margo Selby

Margo's skill lies in weaving – indeed you may have seen her on the BBC Mastercrafts programme – and this cushion shows the façade of the building recreated using woven silk/viscose jacquard. This gives a nice tactile feel and some would almost say an almost welcoming look both to the building and to the cushion.

The cushions are turquoise on one side and white on the other and filled with a feather core. They cost £70 each. 

Buy it from Rume

Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: Midcentury-inspired Ellis-Miller House in Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire

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An interesting house designed by an architect for his own use – and inspired by giants of days gone by – the Ellis-Miller House in Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire.

Designed by Jonathan Ellis-Miller in the late 80s and inspired by the likes of Mies Van Der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames and Craig Ellwood, this single-storey house is an award-winning design, but doesn't come with a restrictive price tag.

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Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: 1960s-designed terraced house in The Hamlet, Champion Hill, London SE5

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It might not look much from the outside, but check out the interior of this stunning 1960s-designed terraced house in The Hamlet, Champion Hill, London SE5.

The Hamlet is an award-winning development of 32 freehold houses around 'an attractive green', dating back to 1967 and the work of architect Peter Moiret. Just to make sure that design stays true to the original, there is an active residents' association to keep things 'just right', throwing in the odd social event too.

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Categories / Architecture, Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

East London landmark mugs

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People will always need plates have created quite a trend for putting architectural drawing onto homewares, a trend that continues with these East London landmark mugs.

The four mugs reflect the history (and the current fashionableness) of the area and have something for most architectural tastes: be it the Victoriana of the Museum of Childhood, the industrial motif of the gas towers, the turn-of-the-century Hackney Empire or Dalston's Deco Rio cinema. Perhaps unsurprisingly their designer, Saranotsarah, is also an architect. Each drawing is shown against an attractive, colourful background. 

The mugs cost £8.50 each or £30 for a set of four. Perfect for a Rosie Lee…

Buy them from Of Cabbages and Kings

Categories / Architecture

Modernist London card pack by Stefi Orazi

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With snow over much of the UK, those dreaming of bright blue skies should take a look at this Modernist London card pack by Stefi Orazi. It's like the Modernist Christmas cards which we featured a couple of years back but with the added novelty of the sun being out! 

The set features six of the capital's modern icons: the BT Tower, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Golden Lane Estate, Isokon building along with the K8 Phone box, each illustrated in Stefi Orazi's distinctive style. Envelopes are provided so it's easy to spread a little sunshine. 

The pack costs £12

Buy it from the Things you can buy website

Categories / Architecture, Design and Interiors, Men's Fashion, Women's Fashion

BFI issues The COI Collection: Design for Today DVD set – 20th century fashion and design

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The BFI is currently releasing rare and historical documentary films made by the Central Office of Information on DVD, with the upcoming COI Collection: Design for Today DVD set looking to be an essential purchase.

Released on 22nd March 2010, it's a two disc set, one covering architecture and design from days gone by, the other looking at fashion during a similar era. That first disc offers upDesigning Women (1948) in which Joyce Grenfell takes us through the dos and don’ts of home furnishing; Brief City (1952), modernist architecture and design on show at the Festival of Britain; Design for Today (1965), Hugh Hudson’s day-in-the-life of British design, and Peter Greenaway’s Insight: Terence Conran (1981), showing Conran at the height of his success.

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