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.