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Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Fika cups new at ISAK

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Fika cups

Regular readers will know that we are massive fans of the Scandinavian retro stylings of ISAK, so a new product is always exciting. And here are the Fika cups: two small handle-less cups used for drinking or snacking, or just looking nice! 

The cups come in a set of two. One cup is decorated with a 'Familjen' design, featuring heads of people in a similar style to their Blossom and Bill range, and the other is covered in a 'Harvest' food-inspired design (which reminded me of some of the rediscovered 1950s designs we've featured from New House Textiles). 

Another great addition to the ISAK collection, they come in an attractive presentation box and cost £18 for the pair. 

Buy them from the ISAK website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Sylvie Coquet Art Deco-style tea set

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Coquet tea

This tea set, designed by Sylvie Coquet for Couture lab, offers an extremely luxurious way to serve a cuppa – with added Art Deco style too. 

The hand-made set includes four cups and saucers and a serving pot. A metallic glaze has been used on the pot and the saucers and those elegant handles are gold plated. 

It looks pretty expensive and it is expensive too: the set costs £593. Perhaps not one for everyday use then…

Buy it from Couturelab

Categories / Cars and Bikes, Food and Drink

Beetle Bug Mugs from Pearl & Earl

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Beetle mug

Pearl & Earl have introduced another classic retro car into the kitchen with these Beetle Bug Mugs. You'll probably recognise the style of the design from their VW Camper van mugs that have been around for a while now, but now the VW Beetle gets its turn.

The mugs each feature two illustrations of the car on the choice of 3 colours shown here. Big fan of the design? Handily they've also introduced matching tea towels. 

The mugs cost £6. 

Buy them online

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Nick Munro cafetiere set for Linley

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Does an Art Deco-style coffee set by Nick Munro sound familiar? Well, that would be because we featured his Geo coffee set for John Lewis a little while back. That had the advantage of good looks and a high-street price but if you fancy a deluxe version with similar aesthetic, take a look at this cafetiere set he's designed for Linley.

The set contains a cafetiere, cream jug and a sugar bowl all made from sleek pewter. Rosewood handles complement the design. The whole set is presented on a rosewood tray. 

As you may have guessed, this set doesn't come cheap at £975. However, it is a classic and should last you through many happy and stylish cups of coffee. 

Buy it online  

Categories / Architecture, Food and Drink, Homeware

The Macbeth pub tea towel from Soulful Toaster

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Macbeth

Soulful Toaster are currently stocking a couple of tea towels featuring London architectural landmarks. One shows the Trellick Tower but as that building comes up so often on this site, how about going a bit further back in time with this tea towel showing the Victorian Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London? 

It's a fascinating building: originally being built as a gin distillery, using water from its own underground spring. The words 'Hoxton distillery' can still be read at the top of the building, and indeed at the top of this tea towel. It's now a pub and a live music venue (it also gained notoriety for Amy Winehouse's ex-husband attacking its landlord). The design is screen-printed onto white cotton and is made, appropriately enough, in East London. 

This tea towel costs £9.50, as does the design showing the Trellick Tower.

Buy it online

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Stig Lindberg Aster porcelain

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You'll probably recognise Stig Lindberg's Bersa porcelain design with its distinctive leaf motif. However, Gustavsberg also have reissued another of Lindberg's works from the 1970s, the Aster design.

Looking equally as Scandinavian cool, the cup features a large floral pattern in either red or blue against white. And, like the Bersa, it doesn't come cheap either. A coffee cup will set you back the equivalent of  $80. 

Buy it from the Huset shop website