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Categories / Design and Interiors, Film and TV

The London Underground Film Map by BFI and TFL

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Underground

Back in January, we featured a set of homewards and gifts based on the  London Underground Film Map, everything from a travel wallet to a set of placentas. But you can aso get the actual London Underground Film Map by BFI and TFL too.

As we said last time, this is a unique reinterpretation of the famous London Underground Map with all the station names changed to represent the past 70 years of films shot on location at or near London Underground Stations. If you're a film fan, it's a dream.

The finished item is sized at 100 x 70cm, selling for £9.95.

Find out more at the BFI website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Newgate Underground Station clock

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Underground station clock
Newgate are well-known for their vintage-inspired clocks. There's no prize for guessing where the idea for their new Underground Station clock comes from.

Increasingly a rarer sight in stations, this clock replicates some of the old tube platform clocks. It's got bold black hands and markers, with red 24-hour numerals around the clock face and even reads 'Tube Station clock' along its bottom rim. It's been artfully distressed to give it a vintage look too. 

No need to search one out in salvage yards, this one comes ready made and aged for £55. 

Buy it from Graham and Green

Categories / Art and Photography, Books

Art for All: British Posters for Transport

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Art for All

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  

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware, Travel

Chelsea Flower Show collection at London Transport Museum

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Chelsea flower show

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. 

See the range online