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Categories / Architecture, Books, Homeware

Trellick Tower Bookend

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Trellick bookend

Following on from yesterday's BT Tower cross stitch kits, here's another architecturally inspired product in the shape of the Trellick Tower Bookend, designed by Susan Bradley. Erno Goldfinger's Brutalist Trellick Tower divides popular opinion but has become a distinctive London landmark and has been immortalised many times, including in the popular range of products from People Will Always Need Plates.

These bookends reduce the building to its instantly recognisable outline and is made from powder coated steel in the two colours shown here. Bookends are also available in the shape of Norman Foster's 'Gherkin' and the ubiquitous Battersea Power Station. These cost £18.  

 Buy it online

Categories / Architecture

BT Tower Cross Stitch kit by Make Industries

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BT Tower

Cross stitch and mid-sixties architecture seem a slightly unlikely combination but that's what you get with this BT Tower Cross stitch kit from Make Industries. The BT Tower (formerly the Post Office Tower) was built in 1964 and, to craft your very own version, the kit includes a pattern, thread and full instructions.

The woman behind Make Industries, Tina Fox, is a former architect and they also have kits available of a couple more iconic London buildings in the shape of Battersea Power Station and the Lloyds Building. Each kit costs £22.50. 

Buy it from the Hidden Art Shop

Categories / Design and Interiors

New London tray by Maria Holmer Dahlgren

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LONDON-TRAY-3L

You may remember Maria Holmer Dahlgren's colourful pop art style tray from last year. Well, she's back with a new tray design that also uses London as its inspiration, this time depicted in stylish monochrome. 

It features many of the same elements: architectural landmarks such as Tate Modern and Tower Bridge and some quirkier pieces, like the umbrella raining cats and dogs. There are some new bits too: the 'L' of London, for example, is now charmingly doubles as the Big Ben tower.

And, like her other tray, it's not going to break the bank costing £24.99

Buy it from Scandi Living