Soon to jet off to a glamorous location and looking for something to mark your lounger in style? This beach towel, taken from the latest Ralph Lauren lifestyle collection, captures a golden era in travel.
The design is obviously influenced by a vintage 1920s or 30s travel poster and shows a blissful seaside scene. It's printed onto cotton terry making it practical as well as stylish.
As you'd expect, the price reflects the Ralph Lauren brand. This towel costs £65.
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There seems to be no shortage of products for the home inspired by London's transport system, the latest being this Double Decker bus teapot.
It's an attractive white teapot decorated with images of the Routemaster, all number 73 en route to Victoria Station. The buses aren't just the traditional red either, but also in colours like powder blue and green. As a finishing touch the lid of the teapot is decorated with an image of the push button you'd press when you'd want the bus to stop.
The teapot costs £14.99 and you can also get accompanying large drinking mugs for £4.99.
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A slice of bohemian London life in the fifties is captured in this Chelsea tea towel, produced for the shop at the Museum of London.
It uses an illustration produced for Tatler magazine in 1959 by Mardie Madden and features a stylised map of the streets of Chelsea, which it called the 'liveliest area in town'. Produced just before the 1960s style explosion you associate with the King's Road and the area, the characters illustrated include artistic types, alongside more traditional figures such as the Chelsea guard.
A nice slice of London life, this tea towel costs £6.50.
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If the Modern British Posters book and exhibition appealed to you, here's another book focusing on the topic, Art for All: British Posters for Transport.
As the title makes implies, the emphasis here is on posters designed for London Underground and the railways, dating from 1908 when the publicity programme was started by London Underground. Its 208 pages feature many well known poster works, it also examines great examples of the work of McKnight Kauffer in more detail.
Offering a great overview of the topic, the book accompanies an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in America and uses work from their collection, alongside images from the London Transport Museum and National Railway Museum in York.
Buy it for £23.77 from Amazon
Though it may have finished for another year the Chelsea Flower Show is still blooming as part of a new collection at the London Transport Museum.
The products are based around posters from the show dating from 1938 and 1939 by artists credited as 'T V Y' and 'Klara'. Both are suitably floral designs that have been adapted for a wide range of products, from the place mats pictured to t-shirts to, of course, a travel card holder.
Prices start at £4.95 going up to £24.95 for the place mats.
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New from Disaster Designs and just in time for a summer of camping and festivals is this Pretty City London travel flask. It's an old fashioned shaped flask decorated with a charming illustration that shows some of London's most famous tourist landmarks.
The Pretty City designs cover a range of products, from wallets to tea towels, so you're sure to find something that suits your needs. Each design plays on nostalgic tourist images of the capital.
The flask, and range, is reasonably priced too at £12.99
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