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Greetings cards featuring classic British buildings from Obiko

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Obiko cards

From the De La Warr Pavilion to the Post Office Tower, Obiko's range of greeting cards includes many of the British buildings that regularly feature in various forms on this site. 

Obiko are a Hastings based company and their seaside location clearly has a strong influence on their designs. The buildings shown are actually part of a series called 'seagull sites'. Happily, they're favourites with us, as well as the gulls, and also show Battersea Power Station and Brighton's Palace Pier, amongst others. 

Each card is executed in the same delicate style and costs £2.90. 

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Categories / Architecture, Homeware

Angry Children cushions featuring 60s and 70s architecture

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Angry Children cushions

If you are a regular reader of this site, you'll be well aware of the work of People Will Always Need Plates. For a new twist on the architecture on homeware theme, how about their German equivalent in the form of these Angry Children cushions featuring 60s and 70s Berlin buildings?

The Angry Children range is the work of s.wert designs and is so-called because they are angry about building fronts that have disappeared or are about to disappear. For example, the cushion on the right shows Ahronblatt, or 'Mapleleaf' building: built in East Berlin between 1970-3 and demolished in 2001. 

There are seven different designs to choose from, all featuring buildings dating from the sixties and seventies, including the Haus der Statistik design shown on the left. Each cushion cover costs 33 euros.

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Categories / Architecture, Books

The Iconic House book

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Iconic house

Like your houses? Get some architectural inspiration from The Iconic House book. Subtitled 'Architectural Masterpieces since 1900', its 352 pages detail some of the most famous and influential architect designs houses around the world. 

It makes the book an invaluable reference to twentieth century architecture featuring work by the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Eileen Gray and will help you tell your Le Corbusier from your Oscar Niemeyer. It also goes right up to the present day to help pinpoint future classics. 

The book costs just £19.74 through Amazon

Categories / Architecture, Food and Drink, Homeware

The Macbeth pub tea towel from Soulful Toaster

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Macbeth

Soulful Toaster are currently stocking a couple of tea towels featuring London architectural landmarks. One shows the Trellick Tower but as that building comes up so often on this site, how about going a bit further back in time with this tea towel showing the Victorian Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London? 

It's a fascinating building: originally being built as a gin distillery, using water from its own underground spring. The words 'Hoxton distillery' can still be read at the top of the building, and indeed at the top of this tea towel. It's now a pub and a live music venue (it also gained notoriety for Amy Winehouse's ex-husband attacking its landlord). The design is screen-printed onto white cotton and is made, appropriately enough, in East London. 

This tea towel costs £9.50, as does the design showing the Trellick Tower.

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Categories / Art and Photography

Barbican Towers triptych from Stefi Orazi

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Barbican triptych

If you read this site regularly, you may be able to recognise the artist behind this distinctive depiction of the Barbican towers. They are the work of Stefi Orazi whose Barbican cards we've featured previously as well as the slightly more festive Modernist Britain Christmas cards. 

The silk-screen shows the three tall towers that are part of the Barbican Estate in London: the romantically named Cromwell, Shakespeare and Lauderdale towers. All were built in the 1970s and are some of London's tallest residential buildings. Each tower gets their own panel to make up the triptych and the height and distinctive architecture of the towers certainly makes for a dramatic piece of artwork. 

If you like this piece move quickly as it's a limited edition of just 40. The price is £195 for an unnumbered set of the three.

Find out more from the Thingsyoucanbuy website  

Categories / Architecture, Books, Homeware

Trellick Tower Bookend

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Trellick bookend

Following on from yesterday's BT Tower cross stitch kits, here's another architecturally inspired product in the shape of the Trellick Tower Bookend, designed by Susan Bradley. Erno Goldfinger's Brutalist Trellick Tower divides popular opinion but has become a distinctive London landmark and has been immortalised many times, including in the popular range of products from People Will Always Need Plates.

These bookends reduce the building to its instantly recognisable outline and is made from powder coated steel in the two colours shown here. Bookends are also available in the shape of Norman Foster's 'Gherkin' and the ubiquitous Battersea Power Station. These cost £18.  

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