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Portmeirion Magic Garden limited edition coffee pot

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Magic garden coffee

Another company highlighting their heritage: in 2010 Portmeirion celebrates 50 years. They've been looking through their archives and produced a collection inspired by Susan Williams-Ellis' archive designs. This coffee pot is based on a similarly shaped pot they found that was covered in William-Ellis' hand-drawings. These drawings were the basis of the Magic Garden design, which began to be manufactured in 1970. The design looks as current now as it must have done back then. 

While mugs with this design are readily available, this coffee pot is limited to an edition of 500. Each pot costs £65. 

Buy it from the Beth Stevens website

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Sagaform retro tea cup and saucer

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Sagaform tea cup and saucer

The title of this product makes no secret that it's looking back a few decades: Sagaform have named this the retro tea cup and saucer, part of several pieces in a new 'retro' range. Lotta Odelius has looked to the 1950s to produce this attractive pattern, featuring naturally-inspired blue and green shapes on a white base. 

This tea cup and saucer costs £14.50 while a storage jar featuring the same pattern is available for £12.50. 

Buy it from the Illustrated Living website

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Birds Eye Supermousse – another 1980s dessert returns

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Supermousse

We're guessing Birds Eye did alright with the return of its Arctic Roll as it's just knocked out another dessert from the archives – Birds Eye Supermousse.

If you don't remember it, let's just say it was very 'of its time', which means frozen and brightly-coloured, mixing a frozen mousse with a sauce of your choice – the reissue offers strawberry and vanilla or chocolate and caramel, all of which is packed into an 80s-style pot.

Did the original pot double up as a novelty mould? I'm not sure, but the new one doesn't seem to. If you can live without that, you can pick up the Birds Eye Supermousse now, costing around £1.49 for four pots.

Birds Eye website

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Mod vodka tumblers from Artel

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Mod vodka tumblers

Looking to knock back some shots in style? These mod vodka tumblers from Artel could be your answer. As the name might suggest, they are decorated in a stylish black, geometric pattern. 

Artel specialize in glassware with graphic and geometric designs.Named after a group of Czech early twentieth artisans, the company tries to reflect their values in their work. For example, though these glasses have a sleek and modern look, they've been made using traditional glass-blowing techniques. 

Costing £193 for a set of three, they're probably glasses to be brought out on special occasions only.  

Buy them from the Couturelab website

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Teapots and Jugs tea towel by Skinny laMinx

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Teapot teatowel

We've featured Skinny laMinx before: her borrowed spoons textile had a distinctive 50s feel about it. Her new Teapots and Jugs tea towel has a similar look, partly because it is based on illustrations of all the vintage teapots and jugs she owns! Prepare to be envious of her attractive looking collection (you can see the original objects on her blog). The patterns and shapes of the ceramics are displayed in outline against panels of block colour. 

The design is screenprinted onto hopsack and is available in grey or dutch orange for $12.50.

Buy them from her Etsy shop

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Next apple storage set

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Apple uncropped

Here are more goodies from Next who have come up trumps in their latest kitchen collection. Following on from the apple memo board featured earlier in the week, here's a similarly fruity storage set. The five piece set has containers for keeping all your kitchen essentials, from bread to biscuits. Each has a white finish with a repeated apple motif and a red lid to match the plain lettering. The simple design means the set could fit easily into a retro-inspired kitchen. 

The set costs £32. 

Buy it online