Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Retro butterfly teapot by Gone To Pot

Butterfly teapot

Proving that a good design will work on a variety of forms, this butterfly teapot is decorated with a pattern based on a 1950s textile design. 

Made by hand by Gone To Pot, a Texas-based maker, the pattern is reproduced using an underglaze pencil and stain drawing, the diamond and butterfly shapes of the design adapting well to the curve of the pot. And, although the shape is less traditional than the British teapots we featured on Tuesday, it successfully fulfils the task of holding enough tea for two cups. Time to put the kettle on…

This pot costs $60. 

Buy it from Etsy

Categories / Design and Interiors

Ceramic retro tattoo-style heart shaped box

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This unusual ceramic heart shaped box features a retro tattoo-style design. The lid is covered with the words 'love forever' alongside all the emblems you'd expect from a traditional tattoo: a bleeding heart, birds, cupid. However, it's all rendered in white porcelain with a matt finish, rather than in pen and ink. 

The box is much bigger than you might think too, measuring 30cm x 28cm, and making it quite a declaration of love for your home. 

It's priced at £69.

Buy it from Rockett St George

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Birds Nest Plate by Donna Wilson

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We've already seen how Donna Wilson's retro style can transfer onto homewares with her sprig tableware for SCP. There's now more ceramic designs available from her online store, including this Birds Nest plate.

The plate, which is handmade and printed in Stoke on Trent, uses a very 70s image and colour scheme. As with her other pieces – across furniture, textiles and ceramics – it's updated in Wilson's trademark style for the twenty-first century. 

This fresh take on a classic motif costs £20.

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Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Britannia backstamp range from Repeat Repeat

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Continuing the trend for products that proudly display their British heritage is the Britannia backstamp range from Repeat Repeat

Their bone china is all made in Stoke-on-Trent so, for their latest pieces, they've chosen to decorate them with a design based on traditional Staffordshire ceramic stamps. There's a mug, a teapot, a plate and even a tea towel decorated with the design which uses a crown alongside the words 'Made in England'.

Prices start at £10.50 which will get you either the mug or the tea towel and go up to £46.95 for the teapot. 

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Categories / Homeware, Music

Ridgeway Road tiles featuring vintage classical concert programmes

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Here are some unusual tiles with a slightly different look to some of the products we feature on this site. The Ridgeway Road tiles are printed with the covers of vintage classical music concert programmes. 

Made by All Kinds of New and originally sold as part of The Art Group's 'Let's Play' exhibition, there are 12 designs that encompass a wide range of both composers and typographical styles. Hopefully something for every taste then. 

The tiles cost £20 each.

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Categories / Food and Drink, Travel

All Zones London Transport teapot

London Transport teapot

Fancy a cuppa? If you've got lots of thirsty mouths to sate and a fondness for transport related products, you may well be interested in the All Zones Transport teapot. The perfect partner to the 'Why not a canteen job?' tea towel featured last year, it's a London Transport canteen themed tea pot. 

Made from white ceramic, it features the London Transport logo on the side in a muted grey and also as a roundel on top of the lid. It also holds a hefty six cups of tea. Perfect if you can't be bothered transporting yourself from the sofa. 

The teapot costs £22 from Whitbread Wilkinson. 

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