Tag: London

Categories / Design and Interiors, Travel

Make a City London postcard set

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Make a City London

Yesterday we showed you tiles based on postcards from the '50s and '60s but for an alternate tourist take with a distinctly retro feel, try this Make A City London postcard set. 

The set features five designs to cut-out and stick together that are based around a very nostalgic view of the city including rock and roll and fish and chips and, of course, the Routemaster bus. The designs are executed in bright colours and have a very Pop feel. In fact, given the subject matter of the postcards they'd have probably been as applicable in 'Swinging London' as they are now. 

At only £3 for a set, they're as cheap as the chips they illustrate. 

Buy it from The Museum of London shop

Categories / Homeware

Michelle Mason London Calling tea towel

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London calling tea towel

Like the Dupenny wallpapers and cushions, here's another design that's appearing in various guises, now in the form of the London Calling tea towel designed by Michelle Mason.

If you liked the London-based cushions we featured a couple of weeks back but couldn't justify the £45 price tag, the London Calling design is also available on a tea towel. This version of the design costs much less but has got the same 1950s feel and naive charm, complete with a bright blue sky. As a London dweller, I can only dream that such a scene faced me on a look out of the window! 

The tea towel costs £10 from To Dry For

Categories / Homeware, Travel

Michelle Mason Piccadilly Circus cushion

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Piccadilly_cushion

We've previously featured Michelle Mason's collaboration with London Transport. Her new cushion collection also draws inspiration from the capital and includes this charming Piccadilly Circus cushion. 

Inspired by old postcards, the design shows a very stylised view of Piccadilly Circus (if only there was that little traffic!), including Eros and the famous advertising hoardings. There's even a couple of classic Routemaster buses to be seen.  

One of the other cushions features Columbia flower market, while the third shows a more generalised London street scene. All the designs are printed onto cotton satin and cost £45 each. 

Buy it from Not on the High Street

Categories / Architecture, Food and Drink, Homeware

The Macbeth pub tea towel from Soulful Toaster

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Macbeth

Soulful Toaster are currently stocking a couple of tea towels featuring London architectural landmarks. One shows the Trellick Tower but as that building comes up so often on this site, how about going a bit further back in time with this tea towel showing the Victorian Macbeth pub in Hoxton, East London? 

It's a fascinating building: originally being built as a gin distillery, using water from its own underground spring. The words 'Hoxton distillery' can still be read at the top of the building, and indeed at the top of this tea towel. It's now a pub and a live music venue (it also gained notoriety for Amy Winehouse's ex-husband attacking its landlord). The design is screen-printed onto white cotton and is made, appropriately enough, in East London. 

This tea towel costs £9.50, as does the design showing the Trellick Tower.

Buy it online

Categories / Art and Photography

Barbican Towers triptych from Stefi Orazi

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Barbican triptych

If you read this site regularly, you may be able to recognise the artist behind this distinctive depiction of the Barbican towers. They are the work of Stefi Orazi whose Barbican cards we've featured previously as well as the slightly more festive Modernist Britain Christmas cards. 

The silk-screen shows the three tall towers that are part of the Barbican Estate in London: the romantically named Cromwell, Shakespeare and Lauderdale towers. All were built in the 1970s and are some of London's tallest residential buildings. Each tower gets their own panel to make up the triptych and the height and distinctive architecture of the towers certainly makes for a dramatic piece of artwork. 

If you like this piece move quickly as it's a limited edition of just 40. The price is £195 for an unnumbered set of the three.

Find out more from the Thingsyoucanbuy website  

Categories / Art and Photography, Cars and Bikes

Eastway cycle circuit print by James Brown

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Eastway

This striking image is a tribute to the now closed Eastway cycle circuit in east London which was moved for the development of the Olympic Park. Artist James Brown was apparently influenced by an image he saw on a 1963 Czech matchbox but the simple outline of the cyclist and the bold colours used also make it reminiscent of sporting posters and logos from around 1975, the year the Eastway opened.

The image is silkscreen printed onto brown board. It's a limited edition of 100 and, at time of writing, there only seems to be a few left. If you want it then, you'd better get on your bike…

The print costs £58 from Boxbird