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1950s designed interlocking dishes from Guzzini

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Guzzini red dishes
Another way to add some style to your dining table with these interlocking dishes from Guzzini. 

The plastic/acrylic dishes are made from two sets, each set having two connected bowls. The two sets can lock together to create four bowls as shown in the image. 

They are a reissued from a design by Fratelli Guzzini in the 1950s, being sold now as part of the company's 'vintage' collection. All the items in the collection have this distinctive two-tone colouring and reproduce Guzzini's original shapes but are now made using modern manufacturing techniques. 

The dishes are currently on sale at House of Fraser for £17.60.

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Flying Saucer bowl from Museum of Robots

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Flying saucer bowl

Mention a fruit bowl and it's unlikely you'll be getting too excited. That might change when you take a look at this Flying Saucer bowl made by the wonderfully named Museum of Robots. 

You'd expect your alien spacecraft to look a touch more high-tech these days but this wooden bowl is shaped like a flying saucer from a 1950s B-movie. Ideal for storing some of your five-a-day, the bowl is presumably a gift from a friendly and useful species. Open it up and its lid can be used as a second bowl, resting on a surface by using its alien antennae. 

You can buy the bowl with a stainless steel base (as pictured) for $250 or with a natural wood base for $150. 

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink, Homeware

Donna Wilson Sprig tableware range for SCP

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Donna Wilson sprig side plate

We've seen the attractive results of Donna Wilson's work for SCP on furniture including the Eadie armchair and the Mabel sofa. Now she's applying her same retro styling to SCP's first china collection: the Sprig tableware range. 

The range covers jugs, mugs, cups and saucers, salad bowls and the plate pictured above. Each piece features a variation on the 1950s-esque pattern of leaves and other flora and comes in a choice of three colourways. 

Prices range from £12.95 for the mug up to £53 for the salad bowl. The side plate costs £19.50.

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Categories / Art and Photography, Food and Drink

Andy Warhol Banana sweets

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Banana sweets

Andy Warhol's famous Banana has been used on tons of products from bags to watches to dishes but here's a very simple idea I don't think we've covered previously: banana sweets. It's not tricky to work out what it involves – yes, it's the design printed onto a banana-shaped tin that contains lots of little banana-shaped sweets.  

Well, Warhol himself said 'an artist is somebody who produces things people don't need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them' and at £9 it seems a perfect gift (shopping filler?) for fans of his work. 

Buy it from The Lollipop Shoppe

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Jonathan Adler Okura tea caddy

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More goodies from the master of colourful home wares, Jonathan Adler with these Okura tea caddys. On one side a white circle is set against a bright background; on the other side the colours are reversed. The Okura range includes co-ordinating dessert and narrower lozenge plates and apparently is inspired by Japanese Modernism but it also looks pretty Pop to me.  

These tea caddies come in the orange shown and yellow, blue or green and cost $28. 

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Categories / Books, Food and Drink

Hope and Greenwood’s Life is Sweet book

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Life is Sweet

Those with a sweet tooth will probably already be fans of Hope and Greenwood's tasty retro confectionery, sold through two stores in London and online. If you're after an extra sugary kick, you'll be pleased to hear they've gathered fifty of their favourite recipes together in this new book, Life is Sweet. 

From coconut ice to cinder toffee to old-fashioned fudge, they're all here and beautifully photographed and illustrated in a suitably retro style with all the humour you expect from the Hope and Greenwood folks. For £12.99, it's a simple way to make life taste a little bit sweeter. 

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