Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Festival Wallpaper by Mini Moderns – celebrating the 1951 Festival of Britain

Festival

It's quirky, cool and very retro – the newly-launched Festival Wallpaper by Mini Moderns.

This midcentury-inspired wallpaper celebrates the enduring influence of the 1951 Festival of Britain, the post-war exhibition of the new wave of modern British design, which celebrates its 60th Anniversary next year. If you look closely, you'll see highlights of that exhibition – the iconic Skylon, the Dome of Discovery and the Royal Festival Hall, not to mention the Transport Pavilion and The Lion and the Unicorn Pavilion.

The wallpaper comes in 10m x 52cm rolls printed with waterbased inks on paper from sustained forests and in three colour options. Festival is apparently the first design in the new Mini Moderns Day-tripper collection, launching in September 2011, which celebrates aspects of British culture, hobbies and pastimes. See another shot of Festival over the page.

Mini Moderns website

Read more

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Pet Sounds tea towel by Mini Moderns

Pet sounds t towel

Remember the Pet Sounds wallpaper we featured a little while back? Well, if you liked that pattern but weren't quite brave enough to cover your walls with it, thankfully Mini Moderns have reproduced the same design on the Pet Sounds tea towel

It's the same folky, weird wonderfulness, just on a much smaller scale, meaning you can now dry your designs, inspired by the apparent musical talents of the animal kingdom. 

And, of course, it's much cheaper too. This tea towel costs only £8. 

Buy it from To Dry For

Categories / Design and Interiors

Pet Sounds wallpaper at Mini Moderns

Pet Sounds

Mini Moderns' have pulled out many quirky wallpaper designs in the past and this Pet Sounds wallpaper is no different. 

Taken from their Folk Rock collection, the design interprets the phrase 'pet sounds' literally featuring lots of folk-styled instruments and animals. It's available in heather or a powder blue colours as well as the orange shade pictured and, in every colour, is certain to make a unique statement in your home. 

Want a slightly more conventional design? Take a look at the Alice design from the same range: a retro floral number. 

The paper costs £38 a roll. 

Buy it from Bouf.com

Categories / Homeware, Kids, Music

C60 cassette wallpaper from Mini Moderns

C60 wallpaper

Two favourite things meet in this wallpaper: a love of the humble cassette and a love of Mini Moderns' designs. Mini Modern's latest design for kids (or grown-ups who haven't quite grown up) is the C60 wallpaper. The pattern repeats a variety of different tapes, bringing back fond memories of carefully creating and listening to mix tapes with names such as 'summer hits' or 'party mix'.

The image shown is in the chalkboard and gold option but, if you are extra keen to encourage your kids to pay homage to this lost technology, it also comes in the customisable 'colour me' option. Both versions cost £38 per roll. 

Find out more online