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Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

New retro mugs from ISAK

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Isak mugs

More fun and attractive retro designs courtesy of ISAK's new mugs. Sandra Isaksson's distinctive designs are as bright and appealing as ever, drawing on a range of influences.

The fish mug has a Scandinavian feel and reminds me of the New House Textile 50s herring design jar we featured a little while back, while the flower design has a similar look to all the reworked Fifties florals that have been seen recently. This design is also available on a pink background and, to complete the set, the range also includes a great pea-pod design. 

Both mugs are made from bone china and, thankfully, are dishwasher safe. You can buy them for £7.25 each. 

Buy them from Illustrated Living

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Kitchen Front at the Imperial War Museum

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A while back we featured the Imperial War Museum's The Ministry of Food exhibition, particularly the book which featured wartime recipes with which to feed your family on a budget today. If you're feeling too lazy to try these yourself you may be interested to hear that, for the run of the exhibition, the museum's cafe has transformed itself into Kitchen Front and is serving authentic recipes from the Second World War period.

Kitchen Front is the brain child of Company of Cooks and is named after a popular World War II BBC radio programme. While it's a intriguing project, it certainly won't be to everyone's taste. The idea of rationed portions and using margarine rather than butter not so appealing? Well, they've decorated the area with photographs of famous cooks from the period so you've got something else to look at other than what you're eating. 

Find out more from the Imperial War Museum website

Categories / Architecture, Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

East London landmark mugs

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Saramugs

People will always need plates have created quite a trend for putting architectural drawing onto homewares, a trend that continues with these East London landmark mugs.

The four mugs reflect the history (and the current fashionableness) of the area and have something for most architectural tastes: be it the Victoriana of the Museum of Childhood, the industrial motif of the gas towers, the turn-of-the-century Hackney Empire or Dalston's Deco Rio cinema. Perhaps unsurprisingly their designer, Saranotsarah, is also an architect. Each drawing is shown against an attractive, colourful background. 

The mugs cost £8.50 each or £30 for a set of four. Perfect for a Rosie Lee…

Buy them from Of Cabbages and Kings

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

French Bull ’60s-style tableware at W2

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Previously only available by ordering through an American website (and paying the corresponding delivery fees) W2 are now selling French Bull's bright and colourful, '60s-inspired tableware on these shores. 

The products are designed by Jackie Shapiro who is one of the designers behind Tepper Jackson (we featured their Pop Art inspired passport holder at the start of year) and the products share the same bright colours and eye-catching graphics. This psychedelic style melamine plate is typical of their style and sells for just £8. 

The range also includes a similarly colourful platter for £20 and salad servers for £8. 

Buy them online

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 / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Andrew Tanner’s Sayings in Stitch mugs

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Sayings in stitch

Andrew Tanner has given the old-fashioned art of the sampler an update for twenty-first century with his Sayings in Stitch mugs.

These designs bring together some of the finest British traditions: a fine craft heritage and a quintessentially British saying, combined with the enjoyment of a good mug of tea! Each mug features a different saying, presented as if it has been embroidered onto the mug. As well as the pictured opportunity to discuss the finer points of the North versus South debate, other designs feature phrases like 'Ay up me duck' and 'lovely jubbly'.

The mugs cost £14 each. 

Buy them from Designed in England