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Marianne Westman 1950s My Garden tray

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Westman tray

We've recently featured some new products based on Marianne Westman's Picknick. Another of her 1950s designs is reinterpreted here for a new market with this My Garden tray. 

The tray features a pattern that was originally used on the My Garden porcelain. It shows a platter worth of fish, itself reminiscent of the Jonathan Adler's Neptune design that we featured last week. If you like this design, it's also available on a tea towel and on a cutting board. 

This tray costs $28

Buy it from Huset shop

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Jonathan Adler Neptune range

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Neptune plate
There's a distinctive fishy and fifties flavour to the Jonathan Adler Neptune range. 

The range includes trays, plates and tumblers, all decorated with stylised fishes that have depicted in various stages of blue. Like all of Jonathan Adler's design, there's a definite retro feel to the design – in this case, it looks towards the 1950s. Just compare and contrast Marianne Nilsson's Herring Design (or even the fish in our recently featured Picknick design). This range offers an easy way to pick up a serving of style. 

Prices start at £5 for the glasses, with this salad plate costing £6. 

Buy them from Heal's

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

1950s-designed Marianne Westman Picknick coasters

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Picknick coaster
We covered the reissue of Marianne Westman's 1956 Picknick design last year, and in turn the chopping boards that also used the design. It gets a further lease of life with these new Picknick coasters. 

Each of the square coasters reproduces one of the foodie motifs from the design. Use them with the rest of the Picknick homeware range and you've got everything you need to set up your own indoor picnic. 

Simple and sweet, a set of the four coasters costs £11.40.

Buy them from New House Textiles

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Marhult decoration stickers from Ikea

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Marhult-decoration-stickers-patterned__0120260_PE276725_S4After the Keith Haring stickers we featured last month, Ikea have offered up some more designs: the Marhult decoration stickers.

The designer of these designs is unknown but the stickers show food stuffs such as ice-cream, cherries and pineapple, all depicted in a bright retro palette and a suitably Scandinavian flavour. These stickers are suitable for using on tiles so – if they're to your taste – they're perfect for brightening up a kitchen. 

The stickers cost £5.99.

Available in-store only, find your nearest stockist online

Categories / Film and TV, Food and Drink

Star Wars Chop Sabers

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Chop

The title pretty much says it all – these are indeed Star Wars Chop Sabers.

Imported from Japan and officially licensed from the Lucas empire, they are mini / skinny Jedi weapons that sadly don't light up, but they do operated as chopsticks, should you have a thing for far eastern cuisine (and Star Wars movies).

There's a choice of Darth Maul or Luke, with a pair setting you back £9.99.

Find out more at the Firebox website

Categories / Art and Photography, Food and Drink

Retro Kenwood Mixer print by Nursey Bang Bang

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Kenwood

A piece of artwork in honour of a once much loved piece of kitchen equipment, this retro Kenwood Mixer print is from Bournemouth-based Etsy seller Nursey Bang Bang.

The A5 print celebrates the beauty – complete with orange trim – of this must-have of the 70s kitchen. Other prints also celebrate other now redundant household goods such as an old-fashioned hoover and a vintage Pifco iron.

Nursey Bang Bang describes her style as having a "whiff of the 50s, a dash of the mundane, a splattering of the 70s which is all rolled up in a picnic blanket full of cake crumbs". We heartily approve. 

The print costs just £8.

Buy it from her Etsy shop