There’s a new woman in Justin’s life!
She’s an alpine flower girl – and resides on this fabulous vintage pinny.
She came home with him on Wednesday – and he definitely took longer photographing this apron than he does photographing a cruet set – dreaming of life in the alpine meadows!
We love period kitchen textiles – tea towels, aprons, oven gloves, pan grabs, curtains etc.
Have a look at all the vintage pinnys currently available in the H is for Home shop
We bought these two posters last week…
… they’re news stand posters dating from the 1960s – and quite rare survivors.
Most would be thrown away and replaced the following day without a thought… but someone decided to take these home.
We’re accumulating lots of vintage posters at the moment.
They’re perfect for filling the walls in our antiques centre pitch.
Travel posters, advertising and film memorabilia.
We look out for strong graphics & artwork – or favourite subjects.
Framing is quite expensive (particularly when the item is about 6 feet tall as in the case of this Rollerball poster!)
It’s well worth it for the end result.
We’re trying to be strict with ourselves, but the odd one or two have sneaked onto our walls at home – for a while at least!
The majority will be on display and available to buy from Picture House Antiques in Todmorden.
If any of them really take your fancy, we could look into getting them delivered.
We’re adding to the collection all the time – we’ll try to show any new acquisitions on our Flickr pages.
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We were out & about in Huddersfield the other day and took some photos of these amazing tiled mosaics.
They’re situated in a 1960s-built precinct development in the town centre- they really capture the era.
On the subject of tiles, we recently put this image on Flickr. It’s a 1960s tile by Platt depicting a prince on horseback with a hunting falcon – we absolutely love it! We’re planning on having it framed.
We got this vintage bird tile ready-framed which is very effective. We think it was made by Maw & Co. It reminds us of Lisa Larson in style. We bought it from Wowie Zowie in Chorlton. This shop is well worth a visit if you’re in Manchester – they have some lovely stuff, imaginatively displayed.
This large tile/plaque is indeed by Lisa Larson – she’s a real favourite of ours! It was designed for Gustavsberg of Sweden in the 1960s.
Here it is in its usual home on a shelf in our lounge.
Here’s another one of our vintage tiles in situ – this one’s Italian – it sits happily on our bathroom shelf. Here it is in close up.
The most recent addition to our little collection was picked up yesterday. It’s quite different to the others in the fact that it represents a real place – it depicts the Euromast in Rotterdam designed in the 1950s – we really like the modernist feel to it.
The final item in our burgeoning tile collection is by Kenneth Townsend. We featured it before in our Z is for… Zoo blog.
The lion is an early piece from his Menagerie range. Hopefully we’ll be able to find some of his other animals to fill our shelves!
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