Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors

Deborah Azzopardi Pop Art style blinds from Creatively Different Roller Blinds

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It's generally hard to get too excited about blinds, a view that Creatively Different Roller Blinds are working hard to rectify. They sell custom-sized blinds that are printed with an image of your choice. Their collection includes many striking images, including this Pop Art-style collection from Deborah Azzopardi.

The image shown is one of five of her colourful images available on the site or, for an even more exclusive blind, you can buy a signed by the artist, limited (and much more expensive) edition of a floral design called Flower Quartet. 

There's a price calculator on the website where you can work the cost based on the spec of your window. Just as a guidance, the telephone image above would cost £156 for a 100cm square window and, for comparison, the Flowers Quartet design is £362.

Whether first thing in the morning you can face the sun coming through an image that bright is another thing entirely…

See the range online

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink, Homeware

Missoni Home Bianconero range

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Missoni's distinctive clothes and textiles crop up time and time again on this site but their home products are also well worth a look, especially when the designs are as appealing as the Bianconero range.

The tea set has the bold use of pattern and the retro feel you'd associate with the brand. Each object has a slightly different look: from the Op Art style waves on the coffee pot to the Pop flowers on the mug. The black and white colour scheme helps to unify all the designs. 

Prices, as you'd expect from a designer brand, are high. They range from £108.50 for the teapot to £29 for the mug. However, they'll probably look as stylish in another thirty years as they do now, so perhaps you could consider it an investment. 

See them online at Occa-Home

Categories / Design and Interiors

CB2 Pop Art-style Grrrl Rug

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More Pop Art style with this Grrrl Rug, from CB2, the American company who also brought you the vintage style tattoo rug we featured earlier in the year. 

This rug pure 60s style and is designed by artist Matthew Lew. It features a Roy Lichtenstein-type black and white pixelated grid onto which is imposed a glamorous looking eye and pair of lips. Lew's name appears in the corner of the design enhancing the artistry of the piece. 

It's made from 100% wool so should feel good, as well as looking good, underfoot too. 

A striking piece for any room, the rug costs $349.

Buy it online

Categories / Art and Photography

Hi Art twentieth-century art icon patches

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Want a quick, potted history of some key twentieth-century art pieces and movements? Sounds pretty serious but doesn't have to be, especially with this unusual idea, courtesy of Hi Art: patches. 

Yes, you can patch (or should that be Pop?) up an old pair of jeans with a Warhol alike soup can, as shown above, or take your pick from seven other designs. 

The patches also include a test screen design to represent video art and an iconic Magritte-style pipe to represent Surrealism. 

You can get the Dada patch (Duchamp's urinal) at the Tate online shop for £4.50 but the full range only seems to be on sale through Australian company Third Drawer Down where they cost AUS$7 each. Best to check out the shipping fees before ordering though. 

Buy them online

Categories / Design and Interiors, Travel

Tepper Jackson 60s-style passport holder

Tepper Jackson passport

Dreaming of some foreign travel to escape the winter blues? Well, in addition to the Agent Provocateur luggage highlighted earlier in the week, here's another retro travel accessory (though inspired by a different era) comes with this Tepper Jackson 60s-style passport holder

Like the Tepper Jackson flight bag featured a good while ago, it's got a bright Pop design. The black and white pattern, combined with the motif of the flower, looks like it could have come straight out of the Mary Quant boutique. It's practical too, with two side pockets and five card slots to hold any and all of your travel documents. 

The holder is currently on sale for £14.95, reduced from £20. You can also get several accessories in a matching design, ranging from cosmetics bags to card holders. 

Buy it online  

Categories / Art and Photography

Peter Blake fag packet prints: reduced in price until 22 January

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Here's something of a bargain, though how much a bargain it is depends on both your definition of the word and the size of your wallet. Opus Art are selling a limited edition of Peter Blake screenprints, each print showing a different cigarette packet he collected on a 1956 trip through Europe. 

The bargain bit comes with the news that, though the prints are normally priced at £2620.25, they're now selling for £1762.50 until 22 January – that's this Friday! If you've got a bit of cash you want to invest in a Blake print, it's a great saving. If that's still out of your price range, the web site has a wide selection of Blake screenprints available for browsing. 

Buy through Opus Art