Under the Weather?

A great series of get well soon cards I recently found.  From the 1960s I guess.  It's probable the effect of getting of these cards had the desired rehabilitating effect and the patient is still in robust health to this day, aged 123 and a quarter...

Southbank Update

Unfortunately this is "the face" of Modernish, after Di Caprio and Depp dropped out! Apparently a man more suited to selling cheese than midcentury wares...cruel...but maybe fair...

We met some lovely people at the Southbank and sold some great design items. One or two deals have happened subsequently (more of in future posts).  Top selling items: Framed London Bus Posters, money boxes and Scandinavian wares: mostly Figgjo Flint and Rorstrand.

Southbank this weekend!!!

The Southbank vintage festival is this weekend.  The vintage village is free for visitors, so doll yourselves up like these birds and come along.  

Shopping

You can now buy my products.  Click on the link on the left

Look after the Pennies

Storing your shrapnel down the back of the sofa? Bored of that out-sized Bells Whisky bottle which is half-full of coins on the mantelpiece? Not got much of the folding stuff, but a pocket full of pennies...?

Let us look after your hard earned cash.  Pristine Carlton Ware late 1960s/early 1970s money boxes

Backsides

A proliferation of beautiful backsides!  All from the reverse of Midwinter plates and contain a lovely mix of font, style and imagery.  

Tomado Ketchup

Tomado shelving systems from the Netherlands are an ideal platform for displaying a variety of decorative items: functional and colourful, but adequately reserved to allow the pieces to be the main attraction.  I pretty much threw these items at one...and it looks alright (doesn't it?)

What you can see:
Top shelf:  a figure by Alexander Girard (modern reissue) / Figgo Flint pitcher from Norway
Middle shelf: a Portmerion lidded jar by Susan Williams-Ellis / a Keramik vase
Bottow shelf: a souvenir from the Berlin Jewish museum / an Italian Bitossi Hippo