We’re paying homage to all things green in this post – so we’ve selected a variety of items from our website.
We love green in all its shades – it’s the H is for Home colour of course…
…and a green post is very appropriate at the moment with signs of spring all around us!
To mark the day, here’s a little collection of our vintage valentine reds – all available in our shop!
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 post.
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!
Yellow – like orange – is another one of our favourite accent colours…
…a more gentle effect than the high impact of fiery orange, but perfect in some situations.
It has connotations of sunshine, freshness and spring. It was much used in 1950s design as countries emerged from the austere war years.
The mosaic at the top is made up of objects available from the H is for Home website.
Here’s a lovely little poem we came across recently… very fitting for today’s blog!
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly
And, here and there, a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge.
Big barges full of yellow hay
Are moored against the shadowy wharf,
And, like a yellow silken scarf,
The thick fog hangs along the quay.
The yellow leaves begin to fade
And flutter from the Temple elms,
And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
Symphony In Yellow, Oscar Wilde
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