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ISAK Harvest Wallpaper

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Harvest wallpaper
This Harvest Wallpaper is another great design courtesy of ISAK.

With its depiction of fish, onions, peas and herbs, this design references Marianne Westman's classic 1956 Picknick design (which was reissued last year). The same basic ingredients have been given an update with ISAK's distinctive Scandinavian 70s style and have been made available for your wall, not just your dining table. Like all of ISAK's wallpapers, you send them the width and height of the area you want covering and they custom make the rolls for your wall. 

The paper costs £38 per square metre. 

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Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Pina bread bag from Zara Home

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Pina
Zara Home isn't normally known for their retro-inspired designs but this Pina bread bag is a pleasant exception to their usual style.

The bag is decorated with an original print that's full of 1950s charm. The print depicts suitably foodie images, such as a fruit bowl and a pepper mill and vinegar bottle. It's executed in a simple colour scheme of greens, browns and black which adds to the vintage feel. 

The bread bag is made from a flax/linen and cotton mix and, if you like this print, it's also available on oven gloves and a tea towel. 

The bag costs £19.99. 

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Calyx inspired tableware at Heal’s

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Cast your minds back to October and you may remember Heal's Dinky armchair. It was especially noticeable for its upholstery which was a reinterpretation of Lucienne Day's famous Calyx design. If you liked that, Heal's have gone one step further with the design applying it to this set of Calyx inspired tableware. 

Calyx was originally created for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and remains one of Day's most famous designs. For this reinterpretation, geometric stem-like forms of the designs have been applied against white porcelain. In a bit of circularity, the placement and use of the natural motif on this tableware echoes a design that itself drew heavily from the 1950s – Sanderson's hugely popular Dandelion Clocks range. 

Prices for this tableware start at £5.50 for a cereal bowl and go up to £25 for a platter. 

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Categories / Food and Drink

’50s kitchen print aprons at Stitch Designworks

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50s apron
Love the '50s? Fans of the decade who also plan on getting a little messy may want to invest in this kitchen print apron from Stitch Designworks.

It's a pretty frilled apron featuring a kitsch print showing a fifties home economic lesson – think immaculately clad women laying tables or getting things out of ovens. The apron is topped off with a piped heart pocket on its front. Like this print? You can also get it on seat pads, oven gloves or tea cosies. 

The half apron pictured costs £14 or you can get a full apron for £16.50. 

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Categories / Christmas, Food and Drink

1950s Christmas Bustle tea towel

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Christmas bustleAfter your Christmas dinner, continue the festive feel to your washing and drying up courtesy of this Christmas Bustle tea towel. 

Another great design found in the archive of Swedish firm Almedahls, this was originally designed by Aune Laukkanen in the 1950s. It's a suitably jolly design showing lines of elves readying the Christmas feast. Apparently providing a stack of tea towels is a traditional Swedish gift for hostesses – if that's a tradition you want to revive, surely this should be top of the pile? 

The tea towel costs $16. 

Buy it from Huset-shop

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Red Cornishware from T.G. Green

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Cornishware is instantly recognisable with its blue and white stripes. In a twist on the look, T.G. Green have resurrected the 'lost' Cornishware Red range from the 1950s and are putting it back in our kitchens. 

As part of their long history manufacturing Cornishware, T.G. Green experimented with creating red Cornishware in the 1950s but abandoned the range when they found it hard to keep the colour consistent, hence it being described as 'lost'. The rare samples that leaked out have since become expensive collector's items.

The good news for all enthusiasts of the look is that sixty years later, T.G. Green have cracked the colour and brought the range back into production. The cheerful and festive colour combination has been applied to all their traditional items and is now just a click away. 

Prices start at £10 for a beaker. 

See the range online

via India Knight