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Categories / Books, Food and Drink

Vintage Cocktails book by Laziz Hamani

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Vintage

Fancy mixing up a classic this weekend? You need Vintage Cocktails by Laziz Hamani.

140 pages looking at 'the lost art of mixing the perfect drink' by using just a few ingredients and the right quantities. Plenty of drinks on show, along with images of the end product. So if you like the idea of offering up a Mary Pickford (white rum, pineapple juice, grenadine, maraschino liqueur) or a Cape Codder (vodka, cranberry juice, ice and a touch of lime), you know where to look.

Although it's not a cheap place to look, this glossy hardback coming in at a weighty £35.

Find out more at the Amazon website

Categories / Homeware

Halsa retro-style flasks at Ikea

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Ikea_flask

A retro gem hidden away in the general store part of Ikea – these Halsa flasks.

Useful as well as distinctive, the flasks are a mix of stainless steel, silicon rubber and ABS plastic, making them durable to everyday knocks and bumps as well as keeping your hot drinks hot and your cold drinks…well, you know the score.

Take your pick from the two designs above, each selling for just £3.99.

Find out more at the Ikea website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Portmeirion Originals: re-issues from the 1950s and ’60s

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Portmeirion mug

2010 is Portmeirion's 50th anniversary and the celebrations began last year with the limited re-release of the Magic Garden coffee set. They're also going back to the archives for Portmeirion Originals, re-issues of some of their designs from the 1950s and 60s. 

The range uses some of Susan William-Ellis' most famous and distinctive designs. Pictured is the 1964 designed Variations mug, which apparently was one of her favourites. There's also the Dolphin mug from 1959, the Magic City from 1966 and, my favourite, the Totem mug, originally designed in 1963. 

If you can't track down one of the originals, these re-issues cost £15 each 

See them online

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Royal Albert English Chintz hostess set

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Royal Albert Chintz

The Royal Albert china company is celebrating its centenary and is dipping into its archives to celebrate, reproducing designs such as this English Chintz hostess set. 

The set has a typically 1940s look with its dotty and floral pattern and gold trim. It's also got a generously sized plate with plenty of space for a dessert to go with your cup of tea. One of several hostess sets available, you can also get sets featuring designs dating from 1910 and 1970 though they all share the same traditionally chintzy look. 

This set costs £30.

Buy it from the newly relaunched Selfridges website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Angie Lewin for St Jude’s mugs

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Lewin mug

It was only couple of weeks ago we told you about tea towels Angie Lewin had designed for St Jude's first collection of homewares. We also mentioned how they were also planning to do their own mug range. And here it is…

The bone china mugs feature the same designs you can get on the tea towels, plus a few others such as the dandelion design shown here and the Skye mug. All the mugs use the same muted colour palette and share the same retro feel. 

The mugs cost £7.25 each.

Buy them from Illustrated Living

Categories / Film and TV, Food and Drink, Homeware

Test card mug

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Test card mug

Back in the days before we had hundreds of channels of TV available 24 hours a day, the test card was a familiar sight. This test card mug features what was perhaps the most commonly remembered test card, the one showing a girl playing noughts and crosses with clown.

Officially known as test card F, it was first broadcast in 1967 and this version was used on the BBC until 1999. It's also been spoofed many times, by everyone from Johnny Vegas to The Mighty Boosh. 

Perfect for supping from while you watch the telly, the mug costs £6.46.

Buy it from Make International