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Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Pina bread bag from Zara Home

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Zara Home isn't normally known for their retro-inspired designs but this Pina bread bag is a pleasant exception to their usual style.

The bag is decorated with an original print that's full of 1950s charm. The print depicts suitably foodie images, such as a fruit bowl and a pepper mill and vinegar bottle. It's executed in a simple colour scheme of greens, browns and black which adds to the vintage feel. 

The bread bag is made from a flax/linen and cotton mix and, if you like this print, it's also available on oven gloves and a tea towel. 

The bag costs £19.99. 

See it online

Categories / Art and Photography, Design and Interiors, Kids

Brian Wildsmith Liberty Art Fabric

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Liberty’s new season fabric collection features this rather lovely collaboration between the Liberty Design Studio and award-winning children’s illustrator Brian Wildsmith.

The collaboration draws on Liberty’s heritage, revisiting a relationship between shop and artist which dates back to the 1950’s. The design features pastel biplanes and jets and combines an original illustration from Wildsmith’s ‘The Amazing World of Words’, with Liberty menswear prints.

The fabric is 100% cotton and would lend itself to all sorts of creative projects.
It’s available both in-store and online and is priced at £19.95 per metre.

Categories / Design and Interiors

Heal’s midcentury-style Dinky armchair in Lucienne Day-inspired fabric

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Calyx

Looking for a bit of bold, midcentury style in your living room? Check out the Heal's Dinky armchair.

Dinky by name and in nature, this Heal's exclusive is designed to have a small footprint, with small foam seat and high back. Ideal is space is limited. That fabric is apparently a Heal's reinterpretation of Lucienne Day's Calyx fabric, adding an extra of 1950s cool.

Finished off with those angled legs in natural or dark stain, the chair sells for £1,295.

Find out more at the Heal's website

Categories / Homeware

Abbey Cushion

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Unlike many retro printed cushions, the Abbey Cushion from Habitat is a simple enough design to work in most homes.

It features a strong graphical pattern in black and white. It measures 60cm by 60cm and is supplied with a feather-filled pad. The Abbey Cushion was previously priced £35, but is now on sale for a reduced price of £28.

Buy it online from the Habitat website.

Categories / Homeware

Kauniste 60s and 70s inspired tea towels

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Kauniste

This charming tea towel design is taken from the first collection of Finnish company Kauniste. 

They've looked back to the 60s and 70s to gain inspiration for their designs, produced with the aim for them to be cherished and kept for the next fifty or so years. This Maatilda depicts a rural scene, while the range also includes a tea towel with a depiction of a well-packed kitchen shelf as well as a vegetable pattern that would fit in well with the Linea salad bowl featured yesterday. Each design is printed in bright colours onto a linen and cotton mix.

Each tea towel costs 17 euros.

Buy them from Artic Design

Categories / Homeware

Olli and Lime Kitchen Collections

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Georgeapron

We’ve featured Olli and Lime’s nursery products here before (duvet covers, wallpaper and wall art) and I’ve always thought their designs are wasted just kept for children. So I’m pleased to see that they expanded to include two of their designs as Kitchen Collections.

George, a lime and milk chocolate flower-like design (pictured here) and Charlie, a darker brown and mustard circles pattern, are both available on a range of kitchen textiles. You can have your napkins (£25 for four) table runner (£35), tea towels (£15 for a pair) and apron (£25) all in matching fabric.

I’m hoping that more products will follow and I’d like to see their range extended to include grown-up sized bedding, but for now, you can buy their kitchen collection from the Olli and Lime website.