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Lottie Lion kids meal set from Too Much Too Young

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LIONSET

As well as a song by The Specials, Too Much Too Young is now also the title of a company specialising in stuff for kids. As you'd expect from the name, all the goods have a retro feel, such as this Lottie Lion meal set. 

Made in the UK, the bone china cup and plate set all are decorated with the an illustration of a friendly lion, very much worked in a late 60s/70s style. If lions are still a little scary, they also sell sets featuring child friendly designs of trains, toadstools and elephants. Take a look at their website for games and reworked vintage items suitable for nurseries too. 

All the items in this meal set are available to buy separately or you can get the whole lot for £30. 

Buy them online

Categories / Art and Photography, Travel

Maria Holmer-Dahlgren cards from IKEA

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Dahlgren cards

If you're a regular reader of this site, you'll instantly recognise the art on these cards from IKEA as the handy work of Maria Holmer-Dahlgren. 

We're quite infatuated with her Pop art style designs, be they for London or Stockholm. These cards feature five of your favourite Swedish cities, all depicted in her trademark style. Perfect for framing and adding instant colour to your home. 

Best of all is the price, as a pack of all five designs costs just £2.50.  

The cards are available in-store only, you can find out more details on the IKEA website

Categories / Food and Drink

Gillian Kyle mugs

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Gillian Kyle specialises in illustrations of classic Scottish food stuffs, previously featured as canvas bag designs. Now you can get the look in your kitchen too with her new mugs. 

The range includes some of our previous retro favourites, such as Creamola foam or the delicious Tunnock's Tea Cake, pictured above. Brightly coloured, they're a perfect way to add a taste of Scotland to your kitchen. 

The mugs cost £10.50 each. 

Buy them online

Categories / Design and Interiors

Vintage botanical charts at Whippet Grey

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Botany

Never let it be said we don't cater for all your retro needs on this site. If you have an urge for vintage botany, take a look at these botanical charts available from Whippet Grey. 

The charts were produced by a German educational company and were originally illustrated in the 1950s and 60s. These have been re-issued based on the original print, printed onto canvas and presented with wooden poles. The black background gives them a dramatic look, something enhanced by their size – they are 120cm long. 

Choose from six different designs, priced at £48 each. 

See them online

Categories / Books, Kids

Dick Bruna vintage story book bunting

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Bruna bunting

You can't have failed to notice the huge amount of bunting bedecking shops and stalls and is on sale just about everywhere at the moment. Here's some more, but with an interesting twist: it's bunting using vintage book illustrations by Dick Bruna. 

It's the work of Etsy seller leJeune who has taken the original illustrations from a 1966 copy of Bruna's The Sailor and made them into the bunting. His bold illustrations are used on one side with the story on the other. Take a look at her shop from more bunting from other children's books, the perfect thing for a kid's room. 

This bunting costs $22.

Buy it from Etsy 

 via Kickcan and Conkers

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

I love London lunchbox

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I love London lunchbox

More products featuring the iconography of London, with this I Love London lunchbox. You may remember the distinctive London tissue pack we featured a couple of weeks back, showing a retro-style illustration of a Routemaster bus and people queueing in line. That image has been used again here – to decorate the plastic lid of a lunchbox. 

I've not been able to find out any more information about the illustration – whether it's a genuine image from the late 1950s or 60s or just the work of a skilled copy-cat. Whatever its provenance it remains a striking image and you may be pleased to hear it's now also available on a greeting card and on a doormat, as well as on the lunchbox.

The lunchbox costs £4.95. 

See the range at the Dotcomgiftshop