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Kitchen Cupboards print by Anti Graphic

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Kitchen-cuboard

Collectors of vintage ceramics and fans of retro cooking wares may have a cupboard that looks something like the Kitchen Cupboards print by Anti Graphic. 

It's hand-screen printed and is a colourful depiction of 'lotus' patterned pans and Hornsea-esque pots, shown alongside classic looking sugar shakers and tubes of mustards. The image would be ideal for brightening up a dull kitchen. 

Anti Graphic is the work of Patrick Edgeley who has produced this print in a limited edition of just 60. Each print costs £37.50. 

Buy it from the Anti Graphic online shop

Via Print and Pattern

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Flying Saucer bowl from Museum of Robots

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Flying saucer bowl

Mention a fruit bowl and it's unlikely you'll be getting too excited. That might change when you take a look at this Flying Saucer bowl made by the wonderfully named Museum of Robots. 

You'd expect your alien spacecraft to look a touch more high-tech these days but this wooden bowl is shaped like a flying saucer from a 1950s B-movie. Ideal for storing some of your five-a-day, the bowl is presumably a gift from a friendly and useful species. Open it up and its lid can be used as a second bowl, resting on a surface by using its alien antennae. 

You can buy the bowl with a stainless steel base (as pictured) for $250 or with a natural wood base for $150. 

Buy it online

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Fairbridge Glasgow classic cafes calendar

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Fairbridge cafe calendar

Walk down the high street in a British town and it's easy to get depressed about all the chain stores. Celebrate some unique eateries with this Glasgow classic cafes calendar. It contains lovely black and white photographs taken by young people working with the Fairbridge charity in the city. 

People who know Glasgow will be able to recognise many of the places such as Boni's cafeteria or Tomasso's but it's got enough Formica tables, classic condiments and great retro signs to satisfy any connoisseur of the humble caff. 

You can see more of the photographs they took for the project on flickr or get the calendar for £9.99

Buy it online 

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The Macbeth pub tea towel from Soulful Toaster

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Macbeth

Soulful Toaster are currently stocking a couple of tea towels featuring London architectural landmarks. One shows the Trellick Tower but as that building comes up so often on this site, how about going a bit further back in time with this tea towel showing the Victorian Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London? 

It's a fascinating building: originally being built as a gin distillery, using water from its own underground spring. The words 'Hoxton distillery' can still be read at the top of the building, and indeed at the top of this tea towel. It's now a pub and a live music venue (it also gained notoriety for Amy Winehouse's ex-husband attacking its landlord). The design is screen-printed onto white cotton and is made, appropriately enough, in East London. 

This tea towel costs £9.50, as does the design showing the Trellick Tower.

Buy it online

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Indesit Moon Washing Machine

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Argos is hardly a hot bed of retro design, but it is a stockist of the Indesit Moon Washing Machine.

Apart from Smeg’s 50s style washing machine, there hasn’t been much in the way of interesting or retro design when it comes to this type of appliance. The Indesit Moon is intended to be an ultra modern piece with several unique state of the art features, but when it comes to its looks, it is pure 1960s space age style. The distinctive blue door is a special self-cleaning detergent dispenser, which is probably useful, but in all honesty, my interest in it is how good it looks.

Argos has the silver version (it is also made in white too) which costs £299.

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Stig Lindberg Aster porcelain

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You'll probably recognise Stig Lindberg's Bersa porcelain design with its distinctive leaf motif. However, Gustavsberg also have reissued another of Lindberg's works from the 1970s, the Aster design.

Looking equally as Scandinavian cool, the cup features a large floral pattern in either red or blue against white. And, like the Bersa, it doesn't come cheap either. A coffee cup will set you back the equivalent of  $80. 

Buy it from the Huset shop website