Categories / Design and Interiors

Ercol Originals Collection at Liberty

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We’ve featured Ercol in the past, but if you want to get up close and personal with the mid-century designs, you can at the Liberty store in London from this Saturday.

Ercol will be on the fourth floor of the re-designed Liberty, with all of the Originals (dating back to the 1950s) on display and for sale in both the black and wood finish.

While all that is worthy of your attention, what we didn’t know is that you can now get the Originals with quirky upholstered finishes, like the one above, We don’t know for sure, but we suspect that’s a Marimekko fabric, looking like a marriage made in heaven. We don’t have details of the price of these right now, you’ll probably need to contact the store.

Liberty website

Categories / Homeware

Bailey Tray Table

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Eating your dinner in front of the television needn’t be a slovenly habit if you use the stylish Bailey Tray Table.

Designed by Eero Koivisto for David Design, it is a simple item with plenty of mid-century style. The table top is removable so can be used as a tray on its own, although the whole table itself is light enough to be moved around easily when needed. It is available in white, but looks better in the walnut veneer shown here.

It costs 150 Euros (just under £140 given the exchange rate at the moment) from the Finnish Design Shop.

Categories / Food and Drink

Windmill Straws

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Spinning windmills take me back to the seaside of my childhood. So I was pleased to see them recreated in miniature on these Windmill Straws.

The shiny foil windmills have transformed drinking straws into a fun retro novelty. They are sold in pack of 16, but as they just use ordinary straws, you can probably re-use the windmills on new straws.

They cost £2 per pack from Iggloo.

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Alexander Girard 1970s PlyPrint artwork now available in the UK

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We featured these back in October 2008, but at the time, the Alexander Girard 1970s PlyPrint artwork was only available to our US readers. Well, now you can pick them up in the UK.

As the name suggests, these are plywood panels, each featuring designs by Alexander Girard that were originally silk screen prints dating back to 1971. The  new versions are hand screen-printed onto sustainably-harvested maple plywood panels using water based inks, all with the Girard signature.

Sold with mounting kit, you can pre-order the panels now (for March delivery) via SCP, sized at 36 x 36cm and retailing for £76. A set of smaller panels featuring the 'Love' image is also available for £34.99. See over for another image.

Find out more at the SCP website

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Categories / Bags

Adidas vintage three-stripe airline bag

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Looking for something old school for your everyday bits and pieces, or indeed as hand luggage on a plane? Adidas just might have it with the vintage three-stripe airline bag.

Very much the vintage sports bag, it offers up plenty of storage space, a long shoulder strap, zip top and those coloured stripes and Adidas logo on one side of the white bag.

Available online, you can pick it up for just under £30.

Find out more at the Schuh website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Retro gaming wall decals by Vinyl Design

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Got a plain wall in the house? Want to liven it up? You should check out the Vinyl Design website, which has some rather cool retro gaming wall decals.

Set up by two Italian architects now living in Australia, Vinyl Design offers a range of decals, including animals, lettering and nature – but our eyes fell on the retro range. Within there, you'll find a Rubiks Cube, Space Invaders and our two favourites, Tetris (above) and Pac-Man (pictured over the page).

Check out all the designs on the website, all sold in packs and with instructions, with prices starting at 28 AU$.

Find out more at the Vinyl Design website

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