Soon to jet off to a glamorous location and looking for something to mark your lounger in style? This beach towel, taken from the latest Ralph Lauren lifestyle collection, captures a golden era in travel.
The design is obviously influenced by a vintage 1920s or 30s travel poster and shows a blissful seaside scene. It's printed onto cotton terry making it practical as well as stylish.
As you'd expect, the price reflects the Ralph Lauren brand. This towel costs £65.
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Mondrian’s distinct artistic style once again inspires new designs with these Piet tables by Hugo Passos.
It’s easy to see how Mondrian’s most famous pieces of the 1920s have inspired these designs. Each side table has asymmetric walnut legs, like a 3D versions of his grid-based painting, while the lacquer coloured table tops are in the same bright blue, yellow and red used in his work. The exposed joinery is a nice touch too.
The tables are infinitely more affordable than a Mondrian original but still pretty pricey for a small table, at £245 each.
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We've already featured quite a few of the products and projects Heal's have lined up to celebrate their bicentenary. If you're based near London and have an interest in their fine furniture heritage, you may want to pop along to their latest event, an antique selling exhibition.
Launched on Sunday at the Tottenham Court Road store it features Heal's furniture ranging from the Arts and Crafts period up to the 1950s. The examples pictured above all date from the 1930s with the exception of the cupboard which was made in the 1920s.
No indication of prices but they are likely to be pretty pricey. However, if you fancy a visit to get some inspiration from original good quality pieces, the exhibition is on until 3 April.
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If you're organising your new year courtesy of the Redstone Press 2010 diary we featured a little while back, you may be interested to learn Redstone have collaborated with Magma to produce seven Masters of Early Russian Children's Books prints, based on some of the 1920s and '30s illustrations reproduced in the diary.
The prints are all striking and unusual images and include Vladimir Lebedev's 1929 illustration of woman driving to train station from 1929, shown above. Each print is hand-screen printed as part of a limited edition of 100 and costs £30.
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If you are already looking ahead to next year and want to stock up on your stationery now, you may be interested in The Redstone Press' 2010 Russian diary. If you've ever bought one of Redstone's diaries before you'll know what a visual treat they are and this one is no different. Its illustrations are collected from 1920s and 1930s children literature from the Soviet Union and include works by artists such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitzky. The images give a glimpse not only into the imaginary worlds of children's books but also the idealism of the period.
The diaries are sturdy and spiral bound and cost £14.95 for a year's worth of inspiration.
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