Categories / Design and Interiors

Almedahls 1950s Belle Amie fabric

Belle-amie-scandinavian-fabric
Another great reissue from Almedahls, this time the 1950s Belle Amie fabric – a 1950s design by Marianne Westman. 

If the floral, white and blue pattern reminds you of something, it could be Westman's own Mon Amie tableware design designed at around the same period (and which we featured last year when they introduced it onto some new designs). A classic and pretty pattern, it's bound to add some Scandinavian style to your home. 

The fabric costs £19.95 a metre.

Buy it from Hus and Hem

Categories / Homeware, Kids

Lilly Wallpaper

  Lillywallpaper

The Lilly Wallpaper by Sandberg is a design that will have equal appeal to children and their design-conscious parents.

The wallpaper features an imaginative landscape of hills, trees and trains in a Scandinavian folk art style, designed by Lotta Kvist. It is available in pink/turquoise, brown/green or green/yellow. Sandberg use old-fashioned processes to make their wallpapers, runing their own wallpaper machines at slower speeds than other wallpaper manufacturers and hand-painting the edges of their wallpaper. The paper costs just under £79 per roll. There is also a fabric in the same pattern available, priced £51.61 per metre.

Order online from the Scandinavian Design Center.

Categories / Homeware

Retro dish cloths by Ingela Arrhenius

Arrhenius dishcloths
Ingela Arrhenius is becoming a regular on this site, and now her 50s and 60s influenced designs are more accessible than ever with these retro dish cloths.

We've featured quite a few of these Scandinavian designer dish cloths before – a far cry from the usual soggy washing-up implements. There are three different designs to choose from here, each with its own cute creature. Take your pick from an owl, a cat or a hen, all depicted in her distinctive style. 

The cloths cost £3.75 each. 

Buy them online

Categories / Design and Interiors

Louis Poulsen-style Oslo pendant from BHS

Oslo

The lighting range at BHS has been providing some great retro inspired numbers recently. This Oslo pendant can be added to that list. 

Its name suggests Scandinavian influences. In this case it seems to reference the designs produced for Louis Poulsen by Poul Henningsen, specifically the PH Snowball pendant light, the design of which dates to 1924. This high street version is made from white gloss steel, using the same kind of curves as the PH light to diffuse the light. 

While prices for Louis Poulsen lamps go into the thousands, this pendant costs only £170.

Buy it online

Categories / Design and Interiors

Kensington midcentury-style cabinet at Jysk

Jysk

Ever heard fo Jysk? It's a Danish chain that seems to be making big inroads into the UK right now, selling value items with a Scandinavian twist. This Kensington cabinet is one such item.

It's a midcentury-inspired cabinet with a classic Scandinavian influence, made of solid oak that's been 'oiled', with a mix of both shelving, drawer space and a surface area, plus those stylish angled legs for support.

Be warned, there's some sel-assembly involved, but it is cheap right now. Grab it before 30th April and you can secure the Kensington cabinet for £299.

Find out more at the Jysk website

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eBay watch: 1960s Danish hanging light

Danish

A nice midcentury design for a reasonable amount of money (at least, at the moment) – this 1960s Danish hanging light.

Not one lamp, but three lamps, all made of brushed aluminium, with an orange-coloured inner, able to be positioned at varying levels. Decent condition, with no big scratches, dents or misshaping apparently.

Price? Right now it's just £2 for the lot.

Find out more at the eBay website