Tag: Christmas

Categories / Architecture, Christmas

Stefi Orazi Southbank Centre Christmas Cards

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Royal festival hall

If you're a fan of the architecture of London's south bank, there's only one set of Christmas cards you should be sending this year: Stefi Orazi's Southbank Centre Christmas cards.

Produced exclusively for their shop, they are very much in the style of her Modernist Christmas cards, stylishly depicting a distinctive mid-century building and then adding snow. Each pack contains four cards – two showing the Royal Festival Hall (which opened in 1951) and two showing the Hayward Gallery (which opened in 1968).

A pack of four cards costs £6.40

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Categories / Christmas, Design and Interiors, Music

Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas by Charlotte Farmer at Found Bath

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The store Found, Bath, have collaborated with local illustrator Charlotte Farmer to produce a fantastic range of items under the title Rock 'n' Roll Christmas

You may remember Charlotte's work from the Family Favourites design she did for for New House Textiles. Here her illustrations have been applied across a fifty piece set of plates and jewellery boxes and have been inspired by classic Christmas songs as well as now redundant technology. For example, the Noddy Says plate set pictured above features the famous opening line to Merry Xmas Everyone, alongside a 70s tape recorder. Other designs feature Elvis, Elton John and John and Yoko (there's an image of that one over the page). There's even a shopping bag based around the lyrics to Imagine. 

Individual plates are £18, while plate sets are £25. You can also get jewellery boxes for £18. 

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Categories / Christmas, Food and Drink

1950s Christmas Bustle tea towel

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Christmas bustleAfter your Christmas dinner, continue the festive feel to your washing and drying up courtesy of this Christmas Bustle tea towel. 

Another great design found in the archive of Swedish firm Almedahls, this was originally designed by Aune Laukkanen in the 1950s. It's a suitably jolly design showing lines of elves readying the Christmas feast. Apparently providing a stack of tea towels is a traditional Swedish gift for hostesses – if that's a tradition you want to revive, surely this should be top of the pile? 

The tea towel costs $16. 

Buy it from Huset-shop

Categories / Men's Fashion

Brutus Heritage Christmas 2010 Tartan Trimfit shirt

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Christmas wear doesn't get much sharper than this newly-launched Brutus Christmas 2010 Heritage Tartan Trimfit shirt.

It's a long-sleeved Brutus (as opposed to the short sleeves on the rest of the range), with an archive cloth and original detailing – rolled button-down collar (each shirt is specially packed so that the roll remains intact), matching breast pocket and placket and shaped and darted for 'perfect waist fit'.

Extra sizes now, with the options to go XL if you wish. Available online, £55 secures you one. get a detailed look at that collar roll over the page.

Find out more at the Brutus website

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Categories / Christmas, Toys and Games

V&A Seasonal Toys Christmas cards

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Seasonal toys card

These Seasonal Toys Christmas cards are inspired by objects in the V&A museum's massive collection. By seasonal, they mean toys very much in the Christmas spirit, such as the clockwork reindeer pictured which dates from the 1970s. 

Each pack contains three designs so, as well as the reindeer, you also get an image of a 1970s toy train and a late '40s clockwork turkey. Perfect for a bit of seasonal nostalgia. 

A pack of twelve cards costs £4.50. 

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Categories / Christmas

‘Instant Heirloom’ glitter ornaments from Anthropologie

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Glitter ornaments
It's the 1st December so time to start properly getting into the Christmas spirit. If that for you includes starting to think about decorating the tree, you may want to look at these 'instant heirloom' glitter ornaments from Anthropologie.

I'm not sure that they do live up to their product name in being something that you'll pass down through the generations but, if you want a very traditional look for your tree, these should should certainly do the job. They are a set of six glass bulbs, decorated with glitter – you'll probably remember something very similar on your gran's tree. These are also described as being 'age-stained', presumably to make them look like something you've dug out of the family attic.

The set comes in a retro-looking box and costs £24. 

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