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Blafre Robot Lunch box

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Blafre robot
After Wednesday's Lunch Man here's another retro way to get your kids to take their lunch to school (or you to take your sandwiches to work): the Blafre Robot Lunch box.

The lunch box is both retro-inspired in terms of material and imagery. It's made from metal with a plastic handle and is decorated with cheerful simplified images of robots. Like this lunch box? The Norwegian company also produces the same design on a smaller storage tin. 

The lunchbox costs £10.95 or you can buy the tin for £6. 

Buy it from Nettlegreen

Categories / Art and Photography

Little Winter Trees by Eloise Renouf

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Eloise renouf

Looking for some seasonally appropriate, reasonably priced original art with a retro feel? This Little Winter Trees print by Eloise Renouf is surely the answer to such a quest. 

Renouf is a Nottingham-based designer who interest in mid-century textiles and pattern is reflected in her work. Like the mid-century artists she admires, her designs use natural imagery, breaking it down to its skeletal forms. This print is a great example of her work, with the subdued pale colours used enhancing the Wintery look of the woodland scene. 

A4 sized, the print is limited to 100 copies and costs $25. 

Buy it from her Etsy store

via Print & Pattern

Categories / Design and Interiors

New Orla Kiely wallpaper prints now online

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Orla kiely wallpaper

We've featured so many new Orla Kiely designs recently, you could probably fill your house with them. Another easy way to introduce her style into your home is with her new wallpaper prints, now available online. 

Pictured here is the wonderfully retro-styled Rhododendron wallpaper (you may remember that we featured this on bed linen a little while back). Worth a look is the brown and cream acorn wallpaper which is also being sold on the website alongside other other classic Kiely designs. 

The papers cost £60 a roll.

See them online

Categories / Homeware

John Lewis Connections-patterned craft accessories

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JL connections
John Lewis has got some great retro prints at the moment, not least the 1950s-influenced Connections pattern. Keen crafters will be pleased to know that they've used the print across a range of craft accessories. 

The bold pattern makes a nice change from the chintzy designs that are often used such traditional items such as the sewing basket pictured. The range also includes a sewing case, pin cushion, craft bag and knitting needle roll. In fact, all that's needed to inspire a spot of making over the winter months. 

Prices range from £6 up to £35, with the basket pictured costing £20. 

Buy them online

Categories / Homeware

Celia Birtwell candy flower apron for Hotpoint

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Candy flower
In latest of long line of collaborations for the designer, Celia Birtwell has made a bit of unlikely partnership with Hotpoint to create this candy flower apron.

The apron utilizes one of Birtwell's most recognisable floral textile patterns, teaming it up with her Pop Check design for the aprons strings and trim. There's some pretty touches that make it nicer than the average apron, such as the gathered pocket. 

The apron costs £35. 

Buy it from the Celia Birtwell website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Vivienne Westwood squiggle notebook

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Squiggle notebookCelebrate one of Vivienne Westwood's most recognisable prints with this squiggle notebook.

One of the products on sale at the revamped Vivienne Westwood website, this notebook is covered with the squiggle pattern which was first used in the 1981 Pirates collection – the collection noted for kick-starting the look of the New Romantics movement. Since then the pattern has turned up as part of Westwood's range for the Rug company and in her wallpapers for Cole & Son, as well as being reinvented in subsequent fashion collections. 

The notebook is made from recycled paper and each page is also marked with another Westwood trademark – her orb. 

An ideal gift, the notebook costs £25. 

See it online