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Laura Ashley midcentury-style Colinton occasional chair now discounted and in fabric finish

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Back in our ancient history (2007 to be precise), we featured the Colinton occasional chair from Laura Ashley. Back then it was in leather-only finishes and at full price. Right now, it's got fabric finishes for the upholstery, a matching footstool and best of all, both are discounted.

So if you want this 50s-style gem, complete with those diagonal legs (in a choice of finishes), those lovely curves for both the back and arms and a fabric finish in what seems like an almost-endless choice of cloths, head over the the Laura Ashley site to get a closer look.

Full price is £800, but right now it retails for £600. see over the page for the footstool too – that's also discounted, this time to £225.

Find out more at the Laura Ashley website

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Ascher Studio pop-up display in London

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Moore ascherLondon's Brompton Road is having a series of interesting pop-up events at the moment. As well as the Skandium sale shop earlier this month, it's now hosting the Ascher Studio pop-up display. 

Zika Ascher is well known for his role in the fabric industry in the twentieth century, providing fabric for everyone from Dior to Mary Quant. He's especially celebrated for the 'Artists Squares' series, when from the mid-Forties to the mid-Fifties he invited 51 artists such as Henry Moore, Picasso and Barbara Hepworth to design scarves – with the aim that contemporary art would in turn inspire innovative textile design. 

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Categories / Crafting and Textiles, Design and Interiors

Tammis Keefe 1950s textile designs reissued

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Tammis Keefe may not be a household name, certainly in the UK, but in the 1940s and 1950s the American designer was responsible for many popular and cheerful textile designs. Michael Miller have now reissued some of her most distinctive designs for fabric and Fifties enthusiasts. 

Fifteen designs have been reissued in total, selected from the work of the prolific designer. The playful Alligator cotton shown above is illustrative of Keefe's style which, in turn, was very typical of the period. Other designs are based around cats, birds and owls. 

The fabrics are available from a range of sellers on Etsy, with prices starting for around $8 a yard. 

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Vintage Textile Patterns from Vitrine

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Vintage textile patterns
If you're a lover of pattern and colour, you're sure to find something you like from the selection of vintage textile patterns available from Vitrine.

The owner of Vitrine, Blaine Dessent-Owner, came across a collection of drawings, paintings and collages belonging to a textile company in Lyon that went out of business in the late 80s. Each piece was made by hand and depicts a different textile design once produced by the company and includes everything for all design tastes ranging from bold geometrics to pretty florals. 

The prices for the pieces range from $85 to $90. 

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1950s fabric designs reissued at V&A website

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Daisy fabric

What with the Prey tins featured early today, or the Zara Home Pina design we featured yesterday, it's clear that Fifties fabric designs are still as popular as ever. You can grab another piece of the look with these 1950s fabrics designs that have been reissued by the V&A. 

Available exclusively online or through mail order, the printed cottons are adapted from designs made for Horrockses Fashions. We've previously featured some of the V&A's Horrockses-inspired products and these designs share that colourful, floral look. Daisy pictured above is also available in a pink colourway, while there are two further designs which use stripes with the flowers. 

If you want to delve a bit further back in time, they are also selling original fabrics inspired by the textiles in the V&A's quilts collection, which we also featured earlier this year. 

A metre of the 1950s-style cotton costs £8.50 while prices for the other designs vary. 

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Vintage fabric storage tins from Prey

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We flagged these up back in September when we were talking about Prey's mug designs. If you liked them, you're sure to love these vintage fabric storage tins which are now in stock. 

Like the mugs, these tins are decorated with patterns drawn from vintage textiles. Pictured above is the fruit bowl pattern, one of three designs available. The tins offer a perfect way to keep your bits and bobs together with style. 

A medium sized tin costs £9.75 while you can buy a nest of three tins for £24.65. 

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