Joseph Joseph produce some of our favourite kitchenware design, especially with their colourful range of worktop savers which often have a retro theme. Their new London worktop saver illustrates exactly why we love them.
Tag: cooking
Caravan Cookbook by Monica Rivron
You can tell that caravans are cool again by the spate of books on the subject, including this Caravan Cookbook by Monica Rivron.
The Rivron family (Monica is wife of comedian Roland Rivron) have been caravanning for over 10 years, which has given them plenty of experience of preparing meals in a limited kitchen space. The book contains recipes for simple, but tasty meals, as well as guidance on what essentials to bring along from home.
The book is available from Amazon, priced £8.46.
Retro Kenwood Mixer print by Nursey Bang Bang
A piece of artwork in honour of a once much loved piece of kitchen equipment, this retro Kenwood Mixer print is from Bournemouth-based Etsy seller Nursey Bang Bang.
The A5 print celebrates the beauty – complete with orange trim – of this must-have of the 70s kitchen. Other prints also celebrate other now redundant household goods such as an old-fashioned hoover and a vintage Pifco iron.
Nursey Bang Bang describes her style as having a "whiff of the 50s, a dash of the mundane, a splattering of the 70s which is all rolled up in a picnic blanket full of cake crumbs". We heartily approve.
The print costs just £8.
Buy it from her Etsy shop
Kavalkad Saucepan
New in at Ikea is the Kavalkad Saucepan, a modern non-stick pan with a midcentury look.
The lightweight pan is made from aluminium which allows heat to spread quickly and makes it easy to regulate, but what really attracted us to this was the outside design. The pan has been given a bright blue finish and decorated with a graphic floral design that is reminiscent of classic Scandinavian designers of the past such as Cathrineholm. It being an Ikea product, it is cheap too – just £4.99. Hopefully a full set of pots and pans will follow shortly.
Find out if your nearest Ikea has it in stock through the Ikea website.
’50s kitchen print aprons at Stitch Designworks
Love the '50s? Fans of the decade who also plan on getting a little messy may want to invest in this kitchen print apron from Stitch Designworks.
It's a pretty frilled apron featuring a kitsch print showing a fifties home economic lesson – think immaculately clad women laying tables or getting things out of ovens. The apron is topped off with a piped heart pocket on its front. Like this print? You can also get it on seat pads, oven gloves or tea cosies.
The half apron pictured costs £14 or you can get a full apron for £16.50.
Buy it online
Red Cornishware from T.G. Green
Cornishware is instantly recognisable with its blue and white stripes. In a twist on the look, T.G. Green have resurrected the 'lost' Cornishware Red range from the 1950s and are putting it back in our kitchens.
As part of their long history manufacturing Cornishware, T.G. Green experimented with creating red Cornishware in the 1950s but abandoned the range when they found it hard to keep the colour consistent, hence it being described as 'lost'. The rare samples that leaked out have since become expensive collector's items.
The good news for all enthusiasts of the look is that sixty years later, T.G. Green have cracked the colour and brought the range back into production. The cheerful and festive colour combination has been applied to all their traditional items and is now just a click away.
Prices start at £10 for a beaker.
See the range online
via India Knight
