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Retro Series Nostalgia Electrics 50s style popcorn popper

Popcorn popper

More Fifties style but with a very different look courtesy of the Retro Series Nostalgia Electrics popcorn popper. Once you get over that lengthy name and, as you start settling in for the weekend ahead, you'll realise how much better your life could be with some popcorn hot from this little device. 

It is looks like it comes straight from a movie theatre in the 50s but, at just under 40cm high, is sized to fit a normal size home. There's been some other updates for the 21st century too: the machine uses hot air, rather than oil, to do the popping making it a little bit healthier. 

The draw back to its good American looks is that it's an American electrical item and so is set up for such. That means to use it in the UK you'll have to think about adaptors and the like. 

The price? For £34.61 you'll be able to get yourself an awful lot of popcorn. 

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Fika cups new at ISAK

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 / Food and Drink

Alpine Meadow range from Next

Alpine dinner set

The naturally-inspired pattern on the mugs, dinner set and table runner in Next's Alpine Meadow range have a definite 1950s feel. 

The dinner set, shown above, is representative of the other products with its retro colouring and pattern. It's got a similar style to Miss Print's Dandelion mobile wallpaper or Sanderson's design through its skeletal depiction of the floral forms.

The set includes four dinner plates, four side plates and four bowls, all for £28. The other products are similarly reasonably priced and will all hopefully bring some of the freshness of a meadow into your home

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Categories / Food and Drink

Camembert cheese plates

Camembert-plates

Lovers of a particular brand of French fromage may remember the Camembert cheese clock from way back. More cheesy designs available here with the Camembert cheese plates

The set draws on the archives of Camembert and their history of distinctive labels and adverts. The designs look like they've come from various periods with my favourite being the art nouveau influenced label shown at the bottom. 

The designs are printed onto porcelain and, measuring just over 20cm across, you'll be pleased to hear they can hold a lot of cheese! A set of four costs £22.95. 

Buy them from Aria

Categories / Food and Drink

Solitaire’s classic biscuit coasters

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If the digit cake moulds we showed you earlier today have helped you work up a hunger, why not pause and stop for tea and a snack? If you need a further incentive, why not take a look at these coasters from Solitaire, featuring some of Britain's favourite biscuits?

They're similar in style to their vintage plate place mats, featured last year, with appetising designs of jammie dodgers, chocolate creams and rich tea biscuits hand-printed onto cotton. 

Two coasters of each biscuit are included in the sets of six. Each set costs £16.   

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Categories / Food and Drink

Digit cake moulds from Suck UK

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You may remember Suck UK's Salt and Pepper 'Bots from last year. Well, they've come up with a new design also inspired by retro technology: digit cake moulds. There are seven moulds in a set and, when you put the shapes together, you can form 70s/80s digital style numbers or letters (though you could argue they're not too dissimilar to the shapes in the net and ball rug featured yesterday either).

And though they are retro in their look, the baking methods are more contemporary. The moulds are made from silicone which means they are microwaveable. I've yet to test how this affects the taste of the cake, but it does inspire some nice packaging in the shape of old-fashioned looking microwave.

A set costs £10. 

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