Tag: London

Categories / Design and Interiors, Travel

La Vie Ordinaire wallpaper from B&Q

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If you like Cath Kidston's London design or the retro city views of Lizzie Allen's City Gents wallpaper or indeed the the C'est Magnifique wallpaper we featured a couple of weeks ago, this La Vie Ordinaire wallpaper from B&Q could offer you a good budget option.

Like those three designs, it's decorated with illustrations of a city, in this case showing London, Paris and New York. It's a very nostalgic, touristy viewpoint so New York gets yellow cabs and the Statue of Liberty; London gets gents in suits and a girl in a rain mac holding a bulldog. The retro feel is further enhanced by the red and yellow highlights that have been used as part of the illustrations. 

The paper costs £19.98 for 10 metres

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Categories / Art and Photography, Books

Angelheaded Hipsters display at the National Theatre

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Fans of the Beat Generation should try to check out the new Angelheaded Hipsters display at the National Theatre, London.

The title for the show comes from Allen Ginsberg's infamous poem Howl and the display, organised by photographic agency Corbis, features prints made from images in Ginsberg's archive. Mainly snapshots taken in the early 50s, together they create a fascinating insight into the scene and feature images of the likes of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady. 

If that captures your interest, you may also be interested in an event the National Theatre is hosting on 19 Feb. Subtitled 'discovering the beat movement', poet Michael Horovitz and Barry Miles, co-founder of International Times and Ginsberg's biographer, have been invited along to discuss the lasting influence of the Beats. 

The display is free, while the event costs £5. 

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Categories / Design and Interiors

C’est Magnifique Wallpaper from Anthropologie

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Want to add some European chic to a wall? Take a look at the C'est Manifique wallpaper for sale from Anthropologie.

The wallpaper is screen-printed with some charming retro-style illustrations of some of Europe's most famous landmarks. As its name might suggest, France - specifically Paris – is well represented with an illustration of the Eiffel tower. Look a bit closer and you'll also see the gondolas and bridges of Venice. Finally, bringing the subject matter slightly more up-to-date, the wallpaper also includes an illustration of the London Eye alongside traditional red buses and phone boxes.

Pretty and whimsical, the paper costs £58 a roll. 

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Categories / Architecture, Property

For sale: 1970-designed four-floor house in Antrim Grove, Belsize Park, London

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I've got this dream that one day, when I have some more money to my name, I'll go house hunting and find a house with an interior straight out of Terence Conran's The House book ('70s version) – just stuck in time, with all the furnishings of the era intact. I might have found that house online, with this 1970-designed four-floor house in Antrim Grove, Belsize Park, London

From the outside, you can tell it's a bit quirky and very much of its era, the kind of place you'd imagine featuring in a 70s cult TV series. Inside, it's even more so, with some great examples of period furnishings.

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Categories / Homeware

All Aboard tea towel by Michelle Mason at To Dry For

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Michelle Mason is well known for her cute reinterpretations of traditional London imagery. This All Aboard tea towel, available from To Dry For, picks up on that theme. 

Printed in a simple red, white and black colour scheme, it features a row of red Routemaster buses, with a nostalgic sixties feel. To add to the jolly feel of the design, the image even includes a scottie dog perched atop of a stack of presents. 

The tea towel costs £9.25. 

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Categories / Bags, Design and Interiors

London bag by New Leaves Studio

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Another week, another great cotton bag. This time the design comes courtesy of New Leaves Studio and their London bag.

The capital's icons have been reduced to simple geometric form, printed in one bright colour. Everything is there: from the phone box to the BT Tower, cups of tea to Big Ben, making it either a proud statement for residents of the city and a great souvenir for everyone else, including the the team behind the design, Mike Lemanski and Sarah Mather, who are based in Huddersfield. Take a look also at their London print, a colourful Pop look at the city. 

The bag costs £7. 

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