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Quintessentially print by Betsey Benn

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Quintessentially

The current appetite for 'Keep Calm and Carry On' artwork is taken to a whole new level with this Quintessentially print by Betsey Benn.

The print lists 240 people and things that are 'quintessentially British' from the Times Crossword to the red phone box to marmite. It's a very rosy, Richard Curtis-style view of Britain, which also promotes the benefits of a nice cup of tea and gives a recipe for a Victoria sponge cake. The various elements are presented in the colours and form of a union jack. 

If you are feeling particularly patriotic, the print costs £45. 

Buy it from Bodie and Fou

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Deco-style teapot from London Transport Museum

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Marty teapot 2

The wealth of the London Transport Museum advertising archives has been dipped into again, to produce this Deco-style teapot. It's part of a new tableware range based around the 1930s posters by Andre Edouard Marty. 

The illustration on the porcelain teapot comes from the poster 'As We Dance Around', commissioned for the Underground Electric Railways Company Limited. It was produced in 1931 and the shape of the pot draws inspiration from this period. 

Separate cups and milk jugs are available, each with a similar look. Each product comes in an presentation box which gives further details on the posters and artist and makes it an ideal gift for any elegant, tea-supping types you may know. 

The teapot costs £32.99. 

Buy it from the London Transport Museum shop

Categories / Art and Photography, Food and Drink

‘Our dinners are a real eye opener’ 1940s design poster

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Trainspotters poster

We've previously featured the reclaimed vintage fittings and posters from Trainspotters. They've now issued their own poster: this unusual 'Our dinners are a real eye opener' print. 

The design is reproduced from a 1940s original and, as it was obviously once from a cafe or restaurant, would look great in a kitchen. 

It's been produced as a limited run and costs £80. 

Buy them from the website

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James Provost mid-century designs poster

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Provost mid-century

Illustrating some of the best known and best loved pieces of modern furniture isn't a new idea but usually is a pretty attractive one. Step forward then James Provost with his take on mid-century design icons. 

It features all the usual suspects, from the Eames' lounger to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair. The print's limited colour scheme and the minimal depiction of each object makes it look extra appealing. 

It's available as a giclee print in various sizes starting at $14.24 for a 'petite' print and going up to $76.49 for the 'massive' version. 

Buy it from Imagekind

Categories / Design and Interiors, Toys and Games

Revolution Iqube

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Revolution Iqube

Looking for a stocking filler for the revolutionary in your life? How about keeping them quiet for a couple of hours with the Revolution Iqube game?

The game is made from four perspex cubes covered with a retro Chinese propaganda poster. The aim is to have all cubes side-by-side, showing the same image on each cube on all four of the long four sides. It's a good job that the poster used is pretty striking as, with apparently 40,000 different combinations and only one solution, you'll likely be looking at them for a fairly long time. 

For £10 it certainly makes a change from the challenges of the Rubik's cube. 

Buy it from Cox and Cox

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Takashi Furuya poster range at Illustrated Living

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Posters

If you liked the Have a Nice Day London Bus poster we featured earlier in the year, you may be interested to hear that Illustrated Living are stocking a wider range of posters by Takashi Furuya. All his work has a retro feel but while that poster looked like it came from a British artwork tradition, the four posters shown here are made to look deliberately Scandinavian. 

The poster in the top right is another variation on the Have a Nice Day message – this time in Swedish. The top left image represents Love, the poster of the boy with the bottle of drink who looks like he stepped straight from an advert carries the phrase for 'delicious', while (believe it or not) the man in the bottom right shows an optimist. Something to appeal to everyone then!

Each poster costs £14.95 from Illustrated Living