Festival of Britain

I received my Elle Decoration magazine and the first thing to catch my eye was beautiful tableware from Minimoderns inspired by the Festival of Britain. So I hopped on their website and to put it simply, they make great stuff! But I particularly like the Festival range as I have been reading a book about all the souvenirs they made back in 1951 for the Festival. Plus I saw the exhibition at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester when I went to see the Robin & Lucienne day exhibition. It is all very inspiring plus has that great 50s vibe about it which has become much more popular in interiors recently.

Here are some Minimodern highlights. We haven't decorated our lounge yet and all this is VERY inspirational!

Robin & Lucienne Day and a great book

I am going here on Saturday to see the Robin & Lucienne Day exhibition and can't wait!


The Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

And for my birthday recently I received this book which I wouldn't have found out about if it wasn't for the H Is For Home blog!
I can highly recommend it!

Jane Foster's cushions

Oooh so many that I want! I have too many cushions as it is but hope to be moving to somewhere with more space soon... so watch this space! :o)

Jane Foster Vintage Cushions

Kitchen inspiration

I am in the process of buying a house with my boyfriend and if it all goes according to plan, we are going to put in a new kitchen straight away which is VERY exciting! So I am on the lookout for kitchen inspiration - we have seen the sort of thing we like already which is probably glossy, light cupboards and dark work surface and we'd like curves to be involved, like the curves on these buildings. No fussy detailing, fairly minimal in that respect as I will have stuff to put in the kitchen and that will be the detail... If anyone has suggestions for where I can look for kitchen pics that would be ever so helpful! I do like retro kitchens though, here are a few that caught my eye:

Image from here.

Image from here.

Image from this very nice blog here.

A Homemaker birthday treat

It was my birthday recently and a very good friend of mine gave me a Homemaker trio of trios! I already had 2 bowls in this beautiful 1950s pattern and I received 3 teacups, 3 saucers and 3 cake plates. Now I am on a hunt to find one more bowl so I have a quartet of trios! Ridgway Potteries produced this range in this mid 1950s and it was sold through Woolworths. Read more on the excellent retroselect.com here.

Best. Picture. Ever.3.

I LOVE Elvis. This photo is brilliant.
Image courtesy of Dr Macro.

Dandelions for spring

I am copying print & pattern by blogging about this beautiful range available from Illustrated Living, it's gorgeous! Really reminds me of Lucienne Day's work, read about her here.  Her Calyx print is shown below.