Tag: 1940s

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Eames Small Dot mugs

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Eames small dot
Add some style to your morning cuppa with these Eames Small Dot Mugs. The Small Dot pattern is based on a textile design Ray Eames produced in 1947 for a competition at MoMA. The design looks so quintessentially Eames that it's hard to believe that at the time it didn't go into production, only recently having been reproduced from archive drawings. 

The mugs are available in red, charcoal or orange and cost £7.99 each. 

Buy it from the Illustrated Living website

Categories / Art and Photography

Fiona Hewitt’s Pop Dumpling Dynasty print

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Dumpling

Fiona Hewitt is the illustrator behind the Dumpling Dynasty whose kitsch kits are for sale throughout the UK (we featured their shoe shine kit early last year). The Boxbird store also has a selection of her prints online, including the Pop print shown above. 

The giclee print, a fake advert for a sickly looking pink drink, features an overly cute boy and his loyal donkey and shows her usual beguiling mix of influences: everything from Chinese communist propaganda alongside advertising and packaging from the 40s and 50s. If you decide this look works for you, this particular print costs £200. 

Buy it online