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Laura Slater Textiles

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Laura slater chair
Laura Slater produces unique 50s-style textiles, used across a range of material.  

The Wakefield designer produces lampshades and cushions covered in her abstract designs. In addition, she works with an upholster to rework old furniture, as in the case of the chair pictured, which uses her Dot dash fabric. You can also buy her fabric by the metre to use in creations of your own.

Prices start at £62 for a cushion, while this chair costs £650. 

You can pick from a selection of products on sale here or, to request a made-to-order product, take a look at her website. 

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Almedahls 1950s Belle Amie fabric

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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

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1950s-style Eloise bedlinen from House of Fraser

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Eloise
This Eloise bedlinen, available from House of Fraser, is a contemporary design but looks like it has come straight from the 1950s.

The design, made by Sheridan, is a colourful design, covered with abstract shapes. It's definitely got the look of some of the artist's textiles of the Fifties, especially the work of someone like Marian Mahler. There's a pattern on the reverse too, all printed onto 100% cotton.

More interesting than your average bedlinen, prices start at £19 for a pillowcase.

Buy it online

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Conran Fabric archive at Surface View

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Looking for some great 1950s and 1960s patterns for your walls? Take a look at the newly launched Conran Fabric archive collection at Surface View.

The collection uses designs by Terence Conran and his contemporaries drawn from the archives at the V&A. The example pictured shows a classic slice of Fifties style and was designed by Conran for David Whitehead Ltd in 1952 (you may remember the oven glove we featured last week based on a design produced by the same company). The collection is based around eight different designs from the Fifties and Sixties, catering to all design tastes. 

The designs are available on print or canvas and prices vary dependant on size and format, starting at £120 for a 800 x 1000mm print. 

See the range online

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V&A Feldman 1950s textile design oven glove

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Feldman
More 1950s designs taken from the V&A's extensive archive and applied to new products, in this case an oven glove based on a 1950s Feldman textile.

The pattern was designed by J. Feldman and then produced by David Whitehead Ltd in 1954, originally as a roller printed rayon. The design screams the early '50s with its atomic influenced pattern, an example of the type of textile pattern that came out of the Festival of Britain and are proving to be so popular again in 2011. 

The V&A have used it on a number of cotton kitchen accessories, also including an oven mit and a tea towel. This oven glove costs £10. 

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Tammis Keefe 1950s textile designs reissued

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Alligators

Tammis Keefe may not be a household name, certainly in the UK, but in the 1940s and 1950s the American designer was responsible for many popular and cheerful textile designs. Michael Miller have now reissued some of her most distinctive designs for fabric and Fifties enthusiasts. 

Fifteen designs have been reissued in total, selected from the work of the prolific designer. The playful Alligator cotton shown above is illustrative of Keefe's style which, in turn, was very typical of the period. Other designs are based around cats, birds and owls. 

The fabrics are available from a range of sellers on Etsy, with prices starting for around $8 a yard. 

via Retro Renovation