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Deco-style teapot from London Transport Museum

Posted on 15th March 2010 | Leave a comment

The wealth of the London Transport Museum advertising archives has been dipped into again, to produce this Deco-style teapot. It's part of a new tableware range based around the 1930s posters by Andre Edouard Marty.

The illustration on the porcelain teapot comes from the poster 'As We Dance Around', commissioned for the Underground Electric Railways Company Limited. It was produced in 1931 and the shape of the pot draws inspiration from this period.

Separate cups and milk jugs are available, each with a similar look. Each product comes in an presentation box which gives further details on the posters and artist and makes it an ideal gift for any elegant, tea-supping types you may know.

The teapot costs £32.99.

Buy it from the London Transport Museum shop

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Kit wallpaper featuring retro food packaging from Studio Nommo

Posted on 12th March 2010 | Leave a comment

If you believe you are what you eat, how about extending this motto to the rest of your home? Should you want to, the Kit wallpaper from Studio Nommo allows you to cover your walls with retro-style illustrations of packaging and create a Pop Art food fantasy look that surely even Warhol would be proud of.

The paper is based on a design by Andreas Samuelsson and features everything from boxes of Ritz crackers to Nintendo NES controllers. The design is fun and unusual but, even in this otherwise minimal marketing room shot, looks pretty full on!

If you're brave enough to want to try this look out, the paper costs 130 Euros a roll.

See more online

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Kitchen Front at the Imperial War Museum

Posted on 11th March 2010 | Leave a comment

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

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French Bull ’60s-style tableware at W2

Posted on 2nd March 2010 | Leave a comment

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.

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Britannia backstamp range from Repeat Repeat

Posted on 1st March 2010 | Leave a comment

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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