In a few weeks time, you'll be amongst the crowds in your local B&Q trying to find a replacement set of Christmas lights for the ones that wouldn't work when you dragged them out of the loft this year. I bet the ones you get aren't as cool as these Snoopy LED Christmas lights.
Category: Christmas
Wedgewood Christmas Tree Decorations
Banish those overly snazzy Christmas decorations! Wedgewood, that most beloved and enduring symbol of the vintage British arts & crafts movement, are bringing their genteel sensibilities to a festive fir near you this year.
Retro Christmas Cards from Penny Choo
Yes, collective groans aside, the Christmas season is a mere 2 months away. If you are one of those organised sorts who likes to get their cards written early, you'll want to get your mitts on these Retro Christmas Cards from Penny Choo.
Stefi Orazi Southbank Centre Christmas Cards
If you're a fan of the architecture of London's south bank, there's only one set of Christmas cards you should be sending this year: Stefi Orazi's Southbank Centre Christmas cards.
Produced exclusively for their shop, they are very much in the style of her Modernist Christmas cards, stylishly depicting a distinctive mid-century building and then adding snow. Each pack contains four cards – two showing the Royal Festival Hall (which opened in 1951) and two showing the Hayward Gallery (which opened in 1968).
A pack of four cards costs £6.40
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas by Charlotte Farmer at Found Bath
The store Found, Bath, have collaborated with local illustrator Charlotte Farmer to produce a fantastic range of items under the title Rock 'n' Roll Christmas
You may remember Charlotte's work from the Family Favourites design she did for for New House Textiles. Here her illustrations have been applied across a fifty piece set of plates and jewellery boxes and have been inspired by classic Christmas songs as well as now redundant technology. For example, the Noddy Says plate set pictured above features the famous opening line to Merry Xmas Everyone, alongside a 70s tape recorder. Other designs feature Elvis, Elton John and John and Yoko (there's an image of that one over the page). There's even a shopping bag based around the lyrics to Imagine.
Individual plates are £18, while plate sets are £25. You can also get jewellery boxes for £18.
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1950s Christmas Bustle tea towel
After your Christmas dinner, continue the festive feel to your washing and drying up courtesy of this Christmas Bustle tea towel.
Another great design found in the archive of Swedish firm Almedahls, this was originally designed by Aune Laukkanen in the 1950s. It's a suitably jolly design showing lines of elves readying the Christmas feast. Apparently providing a stack of tea towels is a traditional Swedish gift for hostesses – if that's a tradition you want to revive, surely this should be top of the pile?
The tea towel costs $16.
Buy it from Huset-shop
