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Lacanche Cluny Cooker

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Normally I’d take vintage over new any day, but when it comes to the kitchen, I need my mod cons, so a piece of equipment like the Lacanche Cluny Cooker would be ideal.

It combines a classic-looking style with modern functionality. It features two large oven (one gas, one electric fan), a powerful grill and 5-burner gas hob. These cookers are handcrafted in the Burgundy region of France and are available in a choice of retro colour options; ivory, black, or yellow, all with chrome finishes.

As you might expect, this sort of quality does not come cheap with the Cluny Cooker costing £5,499 from John Lewis.

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Lotta Kuhlhorn pear mugs

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It was only earlier this week we showed you Lotta Kühlhorn's jazzy lindyhop coasters. Here's another design from her, suitable for decorating the retro home, these attractive pear mugs. 

Like the products featuring her apple design, she uses a simplified, colourful version of the fruit. The pears come in bright pop shades of red, yellow and pink, as well as the more traditional green. Use them them next to your Orla Kiely pear mugs in the kitchen for a very fruity cup of tea. 

The mugs cost £7.25 each. 

Buy them from Illustrated Living

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1959 Chelsea tea towel design from the Museum of London

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Chelsea tea towel

A slice of bohemian London life in the fifties is captured in this Chelsea tea towel, produced for the shop at the Museum of London. 

It uses an illustration produced for Tatler magazine in 1959 by Mardie Madden and features a stylised map of the streets of Chelsea, which it called the 'liveliest area in town'. Produced just before the 1960s style explosion you associate with the King's Road and the area, the characters illustrated include artistic types, alongside more traditional figures such as the Chelsea guard. 

A nice slice of London life, this tea towel costs £6.50. 

Buy it online

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Lucie Sheridan’s Tea T’Owl

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You may remember Lucie Sheridan's distinctive moose head which we featured just before Christmas. Well, for perhaps an easier way to get her designs into your home, take a look at this Tea T'Owl.

The clue is in the name: it's a tea towel featuring some of our favourite birds, owls. The owls are depicted in a very stylized way with the orange and brown colour scheme enhancing the retro feel.

The towel costs £9.50. 

Buy it from All Things Original

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Formverket kitchenware

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Using Formica as a material is a simple short cut to a retro look in either a café or the home. Like Alison Milner's table, Formverket's kitchenware range is inspired by 1950s and 60s Formica table tops. 

The collection is the work of Barbro Tryberg Boberg and includes trays, cutting boards and trivets, all covered with retro-inspired patterns. For example, the Anna/Doris board pictured is a two-sided cutting board with each side featuring a different distinctive pattern. It's made from HDF with a Formica laminate which means it's pretty durable as well as good-looking. 

This cutting board costs $40 while trays and trivets are available for $28. 

Buy them at From Sthlm

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Retro butterfly teapot by Gone To Pot

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Butterfly teapot

Proving that a good design will work on a variety of forms, this butterfly teapot is decorated with a pattern based on a 1950s textile design. 

Made by hand by Gone To Pot, a Texas-based maker, the pattern is reproduced using an underglaze pencil and stain drawing, the diamond and butterfly shapes of the design adapting well to the curve of the pot. And, although the shape is less traditional than the British teapots we featured on Tuesday, it successfully fulfils the task of holding enough tea for two cups. Time to put the kettle on…

This pot costs $60. 

Buy it from Etsy