Categories / Art and Photography

Parade print by Emily Forgot

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It's an illustration that screams the '60s but in fact this Parade print by Emily Forgot is a contemporary piece.

The image depicts some well-heeled and well-booted feet with the monochrome colour scheme adding to its style. In fact the title and the style of the illustration suggests it could be inspired by somewhere like the King's Road in the sixties with the peacocks coming out on parade.

If you like this piece, take a look at the website for more of Emily's work, including some pieces that look like they've come out of the more surreal side of that decade. 

You can buy the print at A3 size for £30 or at A1 size for £105. 

Buy it from The Forgot Shop

Categories / Art and Photography, Men's Fashion

James Brown “Hats” Print

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Combining our love of James Brown’s illustrations with our fondness for dapper clothing, in one item is James Brown’s “Hats” Print.

The screenprint uses just five colours, which adds to its retro look, and depicts 15 styles of hat spanning decades of fashion including a homberg, a bowler, a deerstalker and a pork pie hat. There are only 140 prints with each one signed and numbered by the artist.

The “Hats” print costs £95 from Tinsmiths.

Categories / Homeware, Women's Fashion

Paris Fashion coat racks from Dotcomgiftshop

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Add some French chic to your coat racks with these Paris Fashion coat racks available from the Dotcomgiftshop.

They're made from a very simple wooden plaque with metal coat hooks. The 'Paris fashion' description relates to the panel in the centre of each plaque. These feature 1950s-style fashion illustrations, showing mannequins, frocks and accessories. Available in red, yellow or blue, each colour of coat rack features a different design. The wood has also been given a distressed look to match the vintage style of the illustrations.

Each coat rack costs £12.95. 

Buy them online

 

Categories / Design and Interiors, Toys and Games

Curiosity Shop design by Emily Sutton for St Jude’s

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This Curiosity Shop design by Emily Sutton is the latest in the St Judes great range of fabrics. 

Emily Sutton is a recent graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art and this design takes inspiration from some of the toys and curios in the city's museum of childhood, including spinning tops and miniature trains and much more. It bodes well for her future project – illustrating a children's book for the V&A Museum.

The design is available in the dark blue/mustard colour combination pictured, or in maroon/blue and costs £36 for a ready-made cushion cover or £44 for a metre of the fabric. 

Buy it online

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Ingela P Arrhenius tea towels at Lagom

Img_drawYour kitchen would be overflowing if you bought all of the tea towel designs we recommended to you, but when, like the Ingela P Arrhenius tea towels at Lagom, they're an affordable way to buy great design they are hard to resist. 

You may remember Ingela's name as we featured her retro-styled artwork for kids a little while back. Here she translates those 1950s and 60s influence into something for the grown-ups too. Like the Lotta Kuhlhorn design we also flagged up, this tea towel is based around a well-stocked kitchen cupboard. Mixing in some colourful retro kitchenware, it's sure to brighten up the dullest spot of washing up. 

Printed onto 100% linen, it costs £10.52. 

Buy them online

Categories / Art and Photography, Music

Lord Dunsby’s Serge Gainsbourg-inspired Melody print now available to buy

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Regular readers might recall we featured the Cover Version exhibition in Sheffield some weeks back, where artist Pete McKee asked various arty types to create a piece of art based around a favourite record sleeve. Well, one such piece was Melody by Lord Dunsby, which you can now buy online.

It's one image on the newly-launched Lord Dunsby site, along with many other cool and quirky ones with a retro and vintage twist that are available in the webstore.

The one above is signed and numbered, in a run of 100 and sized at 12 x 12 inches. You can secure it for £30.

Find out more at the Lord Dunsby website