The latest collaboration at To Dry For is this charming Sunny Days tea towel, featuring a design by Ben Javens.
The design optimistically heralds the start of the summer, with a illustration showing that indeed the sun has got his hat on. The blue, yellow and brown colour scheme adds to the retro feel of the design.
As with all the To Dry For products, it's a very reasonable way to snap up a piece of design. This tea towel costs £9.95.
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Got a sweet tooth that no amount of modern confectionery can satisfy? You may want to invest in this candy floss maker by Giles and Posner.
Much like the popcorn machine we featured a little while ago, it's a retro styled piece of gadgetry designed to serve up sweet old-fashioned treats. Not only does the machine spin caster sugar to cotton candy, it looks pretty nice too and is sure to fit into a kitchen as neatly as it would a diner.
The candy floss maker costs £35
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Dollydagger claim their store stocks ‘cool clothes for rock n roll chicks’. They’ve also got a nice line in stocking cool home accessories for rock n roll chicks (and guys), such as this retro diner wall clock.
Perfect for adding a touch of 50s Americana to a kitchen, it’s made in bright and cheerful plastic, also available in green and black as well as the powder blue shown. The clock face is bold and easy-to-read too.
It costs £18.50, leaving plenty of change to fund a rock around the clock.
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An easy and attractive way to a shabby chic look with the new vintage patchwork collection at Welbeck Tiles.
You may remember the distinctive British postcard tile collection we featured a little while back. This range uses a similar principle, featuring 30 different designs of floral tiles. You can also get gold-coloured tiles, or tiles featuring heart-shaped patterns to arrange to create your own distinctive look.
Individual prices can be found on website or you can order them as a hand-selected mix (as shown in the image) where a quarter square metre, made of 49 tiles, is £175.
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When it comes to your kitchen roll, do you find the plain white or perhaps the floral designs just don't do it for you? Maybe you should try this traditional tattoo kitchen roll instead.
Its length of 20 metres is covered with traditional tattoo designs, from bleeding hearts to sailors and roses and is probably far too good looking to soak up any cookery spills. If you're really keen on the look, you could always pair it up with this dish cloth for a tattoo-tastic kitchen.
It's not only prettier but also is pricier than your average kitchen roll at £5.50.
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This ceramic fish platter from Sagaform references both its geographical and design heritage.
It's designed to bring a traditional Scandinavian platter of fish-based delicacies to your table while it also has a definite 1950s look, not dissimilar to Marianne Nilsson's Herring design dating from that decade and available from New House Textiles.
This platter is clearly intended for display as well as use, with a hole at the top enabling it to be hung up on the kitchen wall. Like Nilsson's design, it's also available on a jar – perfect for storing away your fishy delicacies.
The platter costs £19.95.
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