Category: Christmas

Looking for retro stocking fillers? Then Pedlars stock of Vintage French Stationery might be of interest.

Sourced from a collection in France that had been acquired from schools and libraries in the 1950s and 1960s, there are various items of stationery that would make inexpensive little gifts. Choose from coloured chalk, erasers, desk tidy, architects rulers or a stationery collection (pictured here). Prices range from 85p for an eraser up to £9.30 for a large ruler.

View the whole collection at the Pedlars website.

Messages of “Peace” and images of white doves are pretty commonplace on Christmas cards, but the “Jo-Jo the Dove” Christmas Cards have another meaning.

The design is taken from an anonymous political poster originally issued by the French anti-communist group Paix et Liberté in 1952. These cards have been designed exclusively for the V&A Shop and are sold in packs of 10 which also include a sheet of stickers for personalising your cards.

The cards cost £6.50 and can be ordered from the V&A Shop now.

Another option if you’re on the look out for something different this Christmas – the Stefi Orazi Modernist London Christmas cards.

The card pack contains icons of London’s ‘modern’ era  – although we’re very much in the mid-century era in practice with the BT Tower (formerly the Post Office Tower), the Isokon Building, the Barbican, Golden Lane estate, the K8 telephone box and the Royal Festival Hall. All with added snow obviously.

Each pack contains one each of the six A6-sized designs (with envelopes) and you can buy them online – retailing for £12.

Find out more at the TwentyTwentyOne website