I think, in this case, the image of the Lunch Man says it all.
Yes, it's a lunch box, shaped like a 1980s Walkman, so you get to keep your sandwiches in one piece whilst looking cool in an gadget geek kinda way.
It's made of plastic, it's sized at 18 x 14 x 5.5cm and the Lunch Man is available online for just £6.
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
Looking for a reasonably priced gift for a secret Santa or a stocking filler? You could do worse than looking at the Heritage London range which includes this bus mug.
The mug features an illustration by Fiona Howard and has the same retro feel as her other work. It features a simplified outline of a red London bus, contrasting nicely to the cream of the mug. There's also a black taxi available in the same range.
Made from earthenware and completely microwave and dishwasher safe, the mug costs just £6.
Buy it from Marks & Spencer
Cornishware is instantly recognisable with its blue and white stripes. In a twist on the look, T.G. Green have resurrected the 'lost' Cornishware Red range from the 1950s and are putting it back in our kitchens.
As part of their long history manufacturing Cornishware, T.G. Green experimented with creating red Cornishware in the 1950s but abandoned the range when they found it hard to keep the colour consistent, hence it being described as 'lost'. The rare samples that leaked out have since become expensive collector's items.
The good news for all enthusiasts of the look is that sixty years later, T.G. Green have cracked the colour and brought the range back into production. The cheerful and festive colour combination has been applied to all their traditional items and is now just a click away.
Prices start at £10 for a beaker.
See the range online
via India Knight
With Jonathan Adler’s love of 1970s design, it was only a matter of time before he produced a Fondue Set.
The set comprises of a fondue bowl, plus four serving bowls and four forks. The ceramic pieces are all decorated with a retro pattern in shades of blue and green. You create chocolate (sadly not cheese) fondue by heating it in the main bowl over a tea light. The set is supplied in matching gift box.
It costs $98 (around £63) from the Jonathan Adler website.
Your kitchen would be overflowing if you bought all of the tea towel designs we recommended to you, but when, like the Ingela P Arrhenius tea towels at Lagom, they're an affordable way to buy great design they are hard to resist.
You may remember Ingela's name as we featured her retro-styled artwork for kids a little while back. Here she translates those 1950s and 60s influence into something for the grown-ups too. Like the Lotta Kuhlhorn design we also flagged up, this tea towel is based around a well-stocked kitchen cupboard. Mixing in some colourful retro kitchenware, it's sure to brighten up the dullest spot of washing up.
Printed onto 100% linen, it costs £10.52.
Buy them online
