Finnish design company Tonfisk have produced a range of serving dishes, Maku Bentwood Servers, that have a stylish rather than kitsch 1970s look to them.
The product name comes from the Finnish word for “taste” and the platters are available in a walnut finish. The side plates cost £11.95 and the long serving platter costs £34.95.
Visit the Caroline McGrath website for further details.
New House Textiles have produced a great range of homewares that utilise Marianne Nilsson's herring design from the 1950s.Reflecting the Scandinavian love of pickled herrings, the design uses a very simple, but effective, repeating graphic of fish. They've used the design across a variety of objects including pot stands, table runners and napkins and also on the storage jar pictured, which costs £19.
The “Made in England” slogan is starting to appear on more and more products with this series of mugs being the latest I’ve come across.
They have been handmade in Stoke-on-Trent from white bone china. There is a choice of three designs available; one simply featuring the words “Made in England”, one with a back stamp logo and the third featuring a map of Britain with a heart over Staffordshire, where the mugs were created and home of England’s pottery homeland.
They cost £11.95 each and are available to buy online from Colloco.
The plate pictured is from a range of rainbow coloured serving items which draw the inspiration for their bold colour and pattern from 60s and 70s graphics. Each item in the range – which includes platters, serving spoons, cups and bowls – is sold separately and is made from ever practical melamine. Each object also has a different pattern and so, although you could use them together, you could also include one or two items alongside plain coloured crockery to brighten up your dining table.
This plate costs £10 and the price of the other pieces ranges from £8 for a bowl up to £35 for a square serving platter set.
The Chemex coffee maker has been around since 1941, when it was created by chemist Peter Schlumbohm using his knowledge of filtration techniques. It's still around today, partly because it's such a distinctive looking object with its wooden handle and leather tie. The object also reflects his scientific background in that it's made of laboratory glass.
The objects has got a distinguished background. In From Russia with Love, we learn it's James Bond's coffee maker of choice. Appropriately, in the real world, it was part of several tours around eastern Europe and the former USSR intended to showcase America's design ingenuity.
Available in various sizes, this particular model will give you eight cups of the black stuff and costs £32.95.
You may know the lovely fabric designs produced by Mary Fellows under the name Pintuck. Her work is based around some of those old slogans, such as 'make do and mend', 'an apple a day' and 'waste not, want not', that are currently fashionable again. Her designs have now been transferred onto mugs.
Each mug features a different one of the slogans, decorated with Fellows' charming retro illustrations. They cost a very unwasteful £7.10 each.
Buy them online
