Categories / Design and Interiors

Ilmari Tapiovaara mid-century TT40 table

Tt40

As the name suggests, the TT40 table by Ilmari Tapiovaara was designed almost 70 years ago, but still impresses today.

1940 was the year, with Tapiovaara combining a top of birch plywood with a frame of solid birch to produce a side table that's both functional and eye-catching – especially if you love curves.

Today it's been reissued in almost exact detail, with a choice of finishes including the natural one above and a glossy black one. Both sell online for the same price, 820 Euros, which is around  £728.

Find out more at the Finnish Design Shop website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Vintage Hovis tin planters

Hovis

We're all for recycling, especially when it looks as good as this vintage Hovis tin planter.

The tins are indeed old baking tins, used in the Hovis factory during the 1960s. Now they're getting a new life as heavyweight planters, particularly good for your indoor herbs I imagine. Or if you're into baking, you can still use them for that too.

Limited numbers, selling for £17.50.

Find out more at the Pedlars website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Deadgood mid-century-style Love armchair

Love_chair

Nice to see another piece of modern design that's every bit as stylish as the mid-century classics – as this Deadgood Love armchair certainly is.

A classic 50s-style shape, the chair has an oak frame, a generous 'wing-style' back and upholstery in 100 per cent wool. That name is no accident either – look closely and you'll see that wool covering also features four hearts as detailing, making it the perfect Valentine's gift, should you have won the Lotto last week.

For the rest of us, it's saving up time, with the Love armchair selling for just under £900.

Find out more at the Deadgood website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

“Teme e Variazioni” Wallpaper

Temawallpaper

You may remember the Piero Fornasetti 'Tema e Variazioni' design from a collection of plates we mentioned a while back. Now the distinctive design has turned up as a series of wallpapers.

Available from Interiors Europe, there are three variations (for want of a better word) of the design available. The one pictured here is the simplest, dominated by the woman’s face. The others are rather more surreal; the woman’s face appearing on a street and the woman’s neck adorned with a necklace made up of small versions of the face.

An iconic design though it is, the obvious question is whether you could live with it on a daily basis? If you can, then it will set you back £65 per roll from Interiors Europe.

Categories / Food and Drink

Retro Drinks Dispenser

Drinksdispenser

Do you have space on your home bar next to your pineapple ice bucket and cocktail shaker for this Retro Drinks Dispenser?

By the power of gravity, the machine dispenses a shot through the nozzle at the push of a button. It holds 900ml of liquid and costs just £14.99.

It is available to buy from high street favourite Argos.

Categories / Art and Photography, Music

Magazine tour posters by Malcolm Garrett

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If you're a fan of music, you might know that cult British post punk band Magazine have reformed for a short series of gigs. And typically for an 'arty' band, there's some arty merchandise to buy too – including these Magazine tour posters by Malcolm Garrett.

Malcolm Garrett is a British graphic designer who worked on a number on iconic album and single sleeves of the 1980s from acts including Duran Duran, Simple Minds, Peter Gabriel, The Buzzcocks and of course, Magazine. Garrett has re-visited some of his work for the band to create a series of art prints, including the two above.

All the hand silk screened images are limited to 100, printed on high quality 270 grams 'Colorplan' art board and sized at 640 x 482mm. 50 are signed by the artist, selling for £50, with another 50 signed by both Garrett and the surviving band members themselves. If you want one of those collector's items, they sell for a very reasonable £75.

Find out more at the Wire-Sound website