Charmed

Forget Pandora. Antique charms are the most wonderful little treasures and jewellery designer  Annina Vogel's has come across some really amazing pieces, a toaster with the toast popping out, a safe opening to money, a music box that actually plays a tune and an hour glass with moving sand.

Annina is making it her mission to save as much antique gold as possible in its original form such brooches, studs, and charms. She then transforms and revives it into something contemporary and fashionable, presenting it in a different way whilst maintaining the integrity of its original character. "Gold is a very good investment at the moment, the cost of it just keeps on rising. This means that a lot of unworn antique and Victorian jewellery is being scrapped and melted, our history and heritage is being lost with it," she explains.

Choose from a collection of rare antique British gold charms and chains to create your own bespoke piece.

Stockists include Liberty, The Shop at Bluebird, pret-a-porter.com and anninavogel.co.uk

Another vintage vacation

Desperate to cheer us all up, home accessories designers are still peddling the caravan holiday aesthetic with fabrics in deckchair stripes, bunting, vintage tinware and polkadot cakestands in stick-of-rock pinks and deafening yellows. Scout struggles with this inaccurate nostalgia - who ever took a cake-stand camping? Who ever even took a cake camping? It was Penguins all the way.

That said, loving the bare styling and muted colours of Snowden Flood's holiday mugs. London-based Snowden celebrates urban and rural landscapes through an exploration of the theme of souvenirs and keepsakes. Her River Series builds on a 200 year old tradition of printing buildings onto plates so voila!  It's also great to have a set of tableware that works together but isn't all boringly the same. Find them in Liberty.