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Categories / Books, Food and Drink

The Vintage Tea Party Book by Angel Adoree

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Vintage

Having a vintage-style get-together? You need a copy of The Vintage Tea Party Book by Angel Adoree, which has just been published by Mitchell Beazley.

Angel Adoree is the person behind the Vintage Patisserie business, using the knowledge behind that to create a guide for hosting bespoke and vintage-style tea parties. Yes, the food is a big party of it, with lotd of recipes to try out for your event. But it also throws in the fashion too, with tips on hairstyling and makeup methods for example, as well as ideas on where to collect that all-essential vintage china .

304 pages in total, you can get it for half price right now at Amazon, priced at £10.

Find out more at the Amazon website

Categories / Food and Drink, Kids

Decade Sweet Boxes at A Quarter Of

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80s

Fancy a pile of sweets themed to a particular era? That's what you get with these Decade Sweet Boxes at A Quarter Of.

The idea is simple, get a wooden box, stuff it with all the sweets from back in that particular day, stick on a label based around that decade and fire it off to your favoured sweet lover. Or eat them all yourself, you've paid after all.

Pictured above is the 1980s box, which includes the likes of Anglo Bubbly Bubble Gum, Cherry Lips, Fizzers, Fizzy Cherry Cola Bottles, Kola Kubes, Pear Drops, Rhubarb and Custard, Strawberry Foam Mushrooms, White Mice, the Cadburys Wispa, Candy Sticks, Caramac, Drumsticks, Love Hearts, Sherbet Fountains, Space Dust and Wham Bars in varying quantities. £37.76 is the price of it all.

Find out more at the A Quarter Of website

Categories / Art and Photography, Food and Drink

Pie & Mash Print by Wasp

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Design company Wasp has created a tribute to traditional British food with its Pie and Mash Print.

Available in either bronze or gunmetal grey, the print mentions porkpies, eels, cockles, mussels and mushy peas as well as the eponymous dish. These food stuffs are combined with slogans from vintage signs from pubs and cafes. It is available in a choice of bronze or gunmetal grey.The print is A2 size and is sold unframed, priced £48.

Buy it online from Rockett St George

Categories / Food and Drink, Toys and Games

Space Invaders salt and pepper shakers

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Space

For the retro gaming addict who just can't let go, we have these Space Invaders salt and pepper shakers.

Actually, the official name is 'retro arcade salt and pepper shakers', which might well be down to a rights thing. But we know what they are, little arcade aliens, adapted here for seasoning your food. It's probably what you call a 'talking point' at the table.

Talking point, seasoning, whatever you use 'em for, the price is £9.99 for a pair.

Find out more at the IWOOT website

Categories / Food and Drink

1950s-style Herbbs Tea Towel from Zara Home

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Herbbs
This Herbbs tea towel from Zara Home offers another bright and colourful retro tea towel design to add your collection and at a bargain price too.

The tea towel depicts a design not dissmilar to New House Textile's Herb Garden design which dates back to the fifties. Like that design, this cotton tea towel is decorated with an illustration showing pots full of herbs. This design is given a contemporary twist by the use of bright pop colours. 

The tea towel costs a bargin £5.99.

Buy it online

Categories / Design and Interiors

David Mellor Pride cutlery in stainless steel

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Pride cutlery

We've featured the designs of David Mellor on this site before, an 'unsung hero of design in the UK'. Though he worked on many different designs throughout his career, he's best known for his work in metalwork, particularly cutlery. His first, and also one of his most famous designs, Pride, has now been issued for the first time in stainless steel. 

Pride was designed back in 1953, when Mellor was a student at the Royal College of Art. It's been in production since the Fifties too, however only in silver plate. It's now been produced in the moderately cheaper stainless steel – retaining the same modern shapes that won the cutlery a place in the Design Centre Awards back in 1957. 

Prices start at £7 for a teaspoon and go up to the thousands for some of the canteens. 

See the range online