Sally Elford's Vintage Tea Time print shows lovely patterned mid-century ceramic cups, just waiting to filled to the brim with glorious tea! The illustration comes in two colour options, gray or brown paper, each limited to 30 editions. The limited colour scheme used reflects the period of ceramics well.
It's printed onto A4 sized paper and costs $20.
Buy it online
Knife sharpeners aren't the most obvious thing to get excited about, but the Chantry knife sharpener has a great heritage which includes the version pictured, known as the retro model. The art deco looking object replicates how the sharpener looked when it was introduced in 1940 by the Sheffield firm Harrison Fisher. It comes in chrome or white and to sharpen a knife, you would simply run it between the steels a couple of times.
The Chantry has been through various incarnations since the Forties. The 1970s designed version, the Chantry Classic, has made to the collection of MoMA, New York, while in 2005 it was given a face lift by Sam Hecht to become the Chantry Modern. Slightly surprisingly, this means there's a style to fit every home.
The Chantry retro model costs £25.86 from The Cooks Kitchen
Ceramicist Eva Zeisel was featured earlier this month for her collaboration with KleinReid but she's recently been awarded a classic design award for her One-O-One range. It's named for her age when she designed the range and it proves she's as stylish as ever. Like her re-issued Classic Century range, it is produced by Royal Stafford pottery and is fine English, high-fired earthenware in her trademark mid-century style with sweeping curves and interesting organic shapes.
The Rockland Bowl pictured costs £50, but prices range upwards from £6.99 for a plate.
If you’re prepared to risk the British weather
and have a yearning to eat al fresco, there are plenty of retro picnic options
available. Life's a Picnic do beautiful hampers though for a more budget (but still charming)
option, it’s worth looking at the Canadian site Vintage Picnic. As the name
might suggest, the site’s specialization is vintage picnic related goods and homewares and it has a particularly useful option where you search through
their stock by brand.
These Sagaform juicy glasses are an easy and attractive way of introducing a shot of retro pattern into your home. They are designed by Lotta Odelius and use the combination of a stylised version of fruit slices and different eye-catching colour combinations to produce a look as mouth watering as their name suggests.
They are sold as a set of four for £16.90.
Fancy a step into the past? Just pop into Selfridges, which has opened its cenTEAnary pop-up shop, which you'll find in its dining and cookshop department.
Decked out in a post-war style, the shops opens this week and stays open until 8th September 2009, awash with bunting, vintage bikes, tea urns, trestle tables, flags and of course lashings of gingham, reminiscent of a good, old-fashioned British tea party.
Of course, most of the above will be available to buy, a mix of vintage classics and modern designs with a nod to the past from people like Becky Oldfield and Emma Bridgewater. Shouldn't break the bank either – prices start at around £16.
