TREND: London Town

LONDON’S ICONIC urban design, architecture and skylines still hold massive appeal to designers. We currently love Lulu Guinness’s London-inspired prints on purses and wallets, the Art Deco tube stations and views of Piccadilly Circus that feature on Michelle Mason’s new London Life cushions (below) and her Melamine mugs and trays (the latter a new collaboration with the London Transport Museum). Plus the graphic, illustrated images on Charlene Mullen’s stitched monochrome cushions (pictured left, £110, available from Rockett St George). Add to these the fab new London cut-out paper artwork map poster by Julie Mirabelle of Famille Summerbelle, and the reissued ‘This Is London’ book by ace illustrator Miroslav Sasek, and all you need is Lizzie Allen’s Red Buses & Black Cabs wallpaper (new cushions, £79, in the same print are available from Liberty), to surround your child wtih London-fever before (or after) your next arranged visit…