If the high end prices of the Missoni Margherita Tableware featured earlier this week are well outside of your budget but you liked the flamboyant flower patterns, then Ikea’s Syntes Skiss Plates may be the answer.
Decorated with a similar bold pink flower design to the Missoni crockery, the Ikea version comes with a much friendly price tag, starting at £1.49 for a side plate up to £5.99 for a large plate.
Further details can be found on the Ikea website.
Decorated with multicoloured kaleidoscopic flowers or multicoloured waves, the Missoni Margherita Tableware series is reminiscent of crockery sets from decades past.
The series includes plates, cups and saucers, salad and pasta bowls, as well as this particularly charming and a matching creamer. Sadly the prices are very much designer with plates costs between £45 and £99 each, cups and saucers from £59. The coffee pot and creamer cost £149 and £85 respectively.
Save up to buy a couple of pieces for show or for best, rather than everyday use. The collection is available at Amara.
Pantone mugs in a variety of the shades from the definitive colour system have been around for a little while now, but the Pantone Espresso Cups Set is new.
Each of the four cups has a different shade of brown and its corresponding Pantone number, to represent the different strengths of coffee. A set with saucers costs £35 from W2.
If you are tea drinker, there is also a set of four tea mugs in a range of tea tones, also priced £35.
Ascaso has been making coffee machine in Spain for over 50 years – and the current models certainly have the looks of those pioneering days.
Typical is the Ascaso Dream espresso & cappuccino machine, hand-assembled and available in a range of 15 coloured aluminium exteriors – which means there’s sure to be one to match your kitchen. Features include a 16 bar pump, high pressure steam arm, pressure gauge, a cup warmer on top, brass filter holder and some great retro touches, like the vintage-style switches on the front.
You can pick one up for £349.
As we mentioned last week, the V&A Museum of Childhood is hosting the Space Age: Exploration, Design And Popular Culture exhibition. And where there’s an exhibition, there’s usually merchandise. This one is no exception, with a range of spacey items to browse, including this freeze-dried 1960s astronaut food.
When we say 1960s, we don’t mean it was made then – this food is a reproduction of food developed for the early Apollo missions. There’s a choice of space treats, including freeze-dried ice cream (in three flavours), freeze-dried ice cream sandwich (which adds chocolate to the mix) and freeze-dried strawberries – all frozen, then dried and sealed in foil pouches to eat when you like or indeed, where you like.
Available from the V&A Shop, you can pick a pouch of your choice up between £3 and £4.
Find out more at the V&A Shop website
Retro camera decorated products seem to be big at the moment and whilst aprons and necklaces aren’t going to appeal to everyone, these Retro Camera Cups should be more people’s cup of tea (if you’ll excuse the pun).
Made by Circa Ceramics, whose decorative tiles we featured a few months ago, each cup holds 12 oz, has an old-fashioned handle and is finished with a glossy glaze. They are available with either Leica or Starmite camera pictures for you to choose from and the colours available vary.
To view cups currently available or place an order, visit Circa Ceramics on Etsy.
