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Diane Goode London Cushions

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Textile designer Diane Goode has created a beautiful series of hand painted London Cushions.

The cushions are made of silk, onto which the design has been painted, taking up to seven hours to complete. There are five designs to choose from, each one taking its name from a well-known London street and featuring a nostalgic image of London with red pillar boxes and phone booths. Pictured here is the Old Street design, a 50cm square cushion with a turquoise silk reverse and a design where a moped (could it be a Vespa?) sits by an old post box. Park Lane and Berkley Square are also square cushions with electric blue and black reverses respectively. The Kensington and Brick Lane designs are rectangular cushions (60cm by 40cm) and feature exquisite floral designs alongside the retro street scenes.

All of the London cushions are priced £83 and can be bought online from My Deco.

Categories / Design and Interiors

John Lewis midcentury-style Mezzo Chair in Sanderson Dandelion Clocks fabric

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Two classics for the price of one with the John Lewis Mezzo Chair in Sanderson Dandelion Clocks fabric.

First, you get the chair, with a solid wood frame and CMHR 100% Reflex foam cushion on elasticated webbing for support, combining to offer up those stylish midcentury curves. The you get the covering, Sanderson's classic Dandelion Clocks 1950s archive print that really brings the design (and your living room) to life. A matching scatter cushion and hardwood beech feet finish things off.

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50s-style Scandinavian homeware at New House Textiles

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You don't need to buy vintage to get a vintage look – check out the all-new, 50s-style Scandinavian homeware at New House Textiles for a stylish midcentury vibe.

There are several collections available, all taking inspiration from Sweden in the 1950s and taking in the kitchen, the living room and the dining room. As just one example, the Red Orchard design offers up that eye-catching leaf print as an oil cloth above, but also offers it as pot stands, trays, chopping boards, cushions and even fabric, if you want to make something yourself from it.

Check out all the ranges at the website, with prices vartinh according to your choice of item and design. But as a quick guide, that oil cloth is £17.50 per metre, while a cushion on the same design sells for £20.

Find out more at the New House Textiles website

Categories / Architecture, Design and Interiors

Trellick Tower façade cushion from Margo Selby and People Will Always Need Plates

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You may think that People Will Always Need Plates have exhausted all the possible designs that come from the Trellick Tower: we've seen cushionsplates and mugs and even a Christmas stocking. However, it's back to this iconic Brutalist building they go for their latest product, a cushion of the Trellick Tower façade, produced in collaboration with Margo Selby

Margo's skill lies in weaving – indeed you may have seen her on the BBC Mastercrafts programme – and this cushion shows the façade of the building recreated using woven silk/viscose jacquard. This gives a nice tactile feel and some would almost say an almost welcoming look both to the building and to the cushion.

The cushions are turquoise on one side and white on the other and filled with a feather core. They cost £70 each. 

Buy it from Rume

Categories / Design and Interiors, Homeware

Becky Broome kitchen textiles

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Becky Broome creates unusual kitchen textiles based on the family ephemera that most of us would throw away. For example, the tea towel shown here uses an old Co-Op book that's been digitally printed onto cotton, overlaid with her own design. Other pieces use things like long disregarded Post Office saving books or reports. 

Her designs cover everything from oven gloves and aprons to tea cosies (though not the the kitchen sink, yet) and all have a similar aesthetic. 

And each item is reasonably priced too: this tea towel is £14.99. 

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Categories / Books, Design and Interiors

The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design

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Of the huge amount of pattern design books being published at the moment, The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design stands out from the crowd. It's partly because of its size: 350 illustrations are crammed into 304 pages. But it's also because of its approach. The author, Drusilla Cole, has selected patterns from the last hundred years, from fabrics, wallpapers, ceramics and other mediums which are ordered within the book by aesthetic, rather than chronological, reasons. This means contemporary creations sit next to retro designs and it's a lesson in inspiration, not history. 

Artistic legends such as Henry Moore and Eduardo Paolozzi sit alongside Retro To Go favourites like Marimekko, Angie Lewin and Mark Hearld of the St Judes Gallery, whose work is used on the cover. Something to dip into time and time again, amazingly the book only costs £13.97 on Amazon. 

Order it online