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Hackney Empire Wallpaper


Embrace maximalism in all it's glory with this Hackney Empire wallpaper from designers House of Hackney.

The design features all manner of animal bacchanalia; from banjo-playing squirrels to cocktail-quaffing badgers and hookah-smoking sloths. The rich colours on a midnight blue background make for a sophisticated and subtle design that reveals it's exoticism on closer inspection.

The wallpaper is digitally printed with environmentally friendly inks and costs £148 per roll here. You can also buy cushions, lampshades and furniture featuring the design. The full Hackney Empire range has also been used to create a pop up Gin Den at Bistrotheque where you can sample a signature cocktail surrounded by the fantastical designs.

Categories / Architecture, Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

East London landmark mugs


People will always need plates have created quite a trend for putting architectural drawing onto homewares, a trend that continues with these East London landmark mugs.

The four mugs reflect the history (and the current fashionableness) of the area and have something for most architectural tastes: be it the Victoriana of the Museum of Childhood, the industrial motif of the gas towers, the turn-of-the-century Hackney Empire or Dalston's Deco Rio cinema. Perhaps unsurprisingly their designer, Saranotsarah, is also an architect. Each drawing is shown against an attractive, colourful background. 

The mugs cost £8.50 each or £30 for a set of four. Perfect for a Rosie Lee…

Buy them from Of Cabbages and Kings