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Yahgie fabrics and cushions featuring 20th-century design classics

Yahgie

There have been hundreds of prints, fabrics, cushions and other artworks featured on this site that draw their inspiration from instantly recognisable mid-century design classics. Yahgie's fabric and cushion collection join that long list, but they do so in style. 

The cushion shown on the left is the thing for any chair addicts. The design features sketchy illustrations of the chairs, shown with their names underneath, enabling you to swot up on your design history as you recline. This pattern is also available as a cotton fabric, as is the Pop Art style pattern on the right that uses the distinctive shape of Henningsen's Artichoke lamp. 

If these designs appeal, their website is well worth an explore as Yahgie also sell wall art and tableware. 

The cushion costs $49.99 while the fabric costs $89.99 for a yard (approximately 91cm). 

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Angie Lewin Hedgerow fabric new at St Jude’s

Hedgerow Lewin

New to St Jude's gallery is this Hedgerow fabric designed by Angie Lewin. We've featured a umber of St Jude's fabrics before such as Alice Stevenson's Treehouse design or their Kensal Rise collaboration with Old Town. Like those two designs, Hedgerow has a very British retro aesthetic, using a 1950s-style depiction of natural forms.  

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

By Graziela limited edition heart cushions and fabric

Love heart cushions

Give a little love this Christmas with this limited re-issue of By Graziela's heart pattern. Regular readers will know what fans we are of Graziela Preiser's colourful designs. This heart pattern dates from 1976 and looks as appealing as it must have done back then. It's being sold as cushions or, for the more craftily minded, as fabric in bright pink, red or orange colourways. 

The cushions are for sale for £34 each while the fabric costs £21 per metre. But if you're interested you need to hurry as only 150 metres of each colour have been printed. 

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Treehouse fabric by Alice Stevenson

Treehouse

Though this Treehouse fabric is a contemporary design by Alice Stevenson, its skeletal pattern looks like it came straight out of the 1950s and the sketch book from someone like Lucienne Day. The design is from the St Judes stable and is made of two colours – the grey on grey option is shown but it's also available in faded red on grey – printed onto 250 gsm linen, perfect for making up curtains or loose covers. 

The fabric costs £44 but if you are feeling a bit lazier St Judes sell ready-made cushion covers in this design. 

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Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Keith Haring fabric patches from the Pop Life exhibition shop

Fabric patches

The exhibition Pop Life opened last week at Tate Modern. The show looks at the impact of Pop Art and how following generations of artists embraced the cult of celebrity and the commercial opportunities it offered. At the centre of the exhibition is a recreation of Keith Haring's Pop Shop which he set up in New York to sell his branded products directly to the public. Of course this means Tate is stocking some great related products, including these fabric patches.  

Reflecting Haring's willingness to put his name to just about anything, they use four of his famous designs, including the baby. They are perfect for adding a touch of street art to a worn, but otherwise loved, item of clothing. At £4.40 each they are a cheap way into buying into a favourite artist and the spirit of the exhibition. 

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Clare Nicolson ‘minis’ wall hangings

Nicolson wallhangings

Following on from yesterday's Ihmemaa print, here's some more textile art for your walls. We've featured many of Clare Nicolson's textile's designs before: her charming digitally printed fabric draw on a mixture of vintage fabrics and paper to create brand new patterns. She's recently expanded her range to include the 'minis' wall hangings

It's a range of five designs, presumably named because – at 21 x 29cm – they are much smaller than her 'birdie' wall hangings. The two hangings shown both have clear retro style: the design on the left is called Vincent and features one of her trademark birds, the one on the right has been titled folklore in a self-explanatory manner. Both come stretched over a wooden frame for hanging and cost £40 each. 

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