Fisherman Tea Towel - £5

Keith Vaughan's 'The Fisherman' furnishing textile from 1956 by Edinburgh Weavers Ltd is printed on this attractive tea towel. Edinburgh Weavers Ltd played an important role in the development of directional British textile design and their fabrics feature throughout the exhibition.

The Fisherman Tea Towel is available from the V&A Shop

Pleasure Gardens Mounted Print - £6

Taken from the cover of the guide book to the Festival of Britain’s Pleasure Gardens in Battersea, 1951, this print designed by Hans Tisdall evokes the fun filled atmosphere. The Pleasure Gardens included a café, beer garden, riverside walk, funfair, the Far Tottering and Oystercreek Railway and Gardens by Night.

The Pleasure Gardens Mounted Print in available from the V&A Shop

Patrick Rylands Fish and Bird Bath Toy - £19.90 each

The fish and bird toys are from a group of toys by Patrick Rylands, which won the Duke of Edinburgh's Design Award in 1970 and have recently been re-issued; back by popular demand. Rylands trained as a ceramicist at the Royal College of Art, and his love of sculptural forms combined with his interest in plastics technology led him to design smooth rounded plastic toys which were very easy for small children to handle. Give as a gift or display as beautfully designed object.

The Fish and Bird Bath Toys are available from the V&A Shop

Wave Silk Scarf - £40

This beautiful silk scarf is emblazoned with 'Mandarin' from a furnishing textile by Linda Harper for Hull Traders Ltd. Hull Traders Ltd like Edinburgh Weavers played an important role on the British textile scene. The bold poppy colours and dynamic design of Harper’s textile makes for a 60s inspired scarf.

The Wave Silk Scarf is available from the V&A Shop

Robin Day Polyside Chair - £55

The original Polyside chair designed by Robin Day was launched in 1963 after three years of development work using the new technology of injection-moulding polypropylene to create a single form for the seat shell. Day’s chair went to become a worldwide success selling hundreds of thousands of units over the years. A British design classic, the Polyside chair has now been given a makeover with a range of bright modern colours.

The Robin Day Polyside Chair is availabe from the V&A Shop in a range of colours

Race Furniture for the V&A- Antelope Chair - £450

The V&A Shop is delighted to announce its exclusive collaboration with Race Furniture, on the reissue of the Antelope Chair in its original Festival of Britain yellow. The Antelope chair was originally designed by Ernest Race and commissioned to furnish the outdoor terraces of the newly built Royal Festival Hall for the 1951 Festival of Britain. Race chose yellow, one of the official Festival colours for the moulded plywood seat which complimented the white slender bent steel frame and petite balled feet. The exclusive limited edition chair features the Ernest Race and V&A logo, stamping it with authoritative approval.

The Antelope Chair is available from the V&A Shop

British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age
By Christopher Breward & Ghislaine Wood, eds
£40 Hardback

This landmark book celebrates the best of British design, documenting the transformation and impact of designers' work over the years between the post-war 'Austerity Games' of 1948 and the 2012 Olympics. As well as essays by leading curators and commentators, British Design from 1948 incorporates pieces by key practitioners (including Peter Saville, Barbara Hulanicki, Paul Smith and Tom Dixon) to build a comprehensive survey of over 350 of the finest examples of fashion and textiles, furniture, ceramics and glass, theatre design, graphics, photography, architecture, fine art and sculpture from this period.

British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age is available from the V&A Shop

Award-Winning British Design: 1957-1988
By Lily Crowther
£14.99 Paperback

In 1957 the UK Design Centre launched the first annual Designs of the Year Awards to identify and promote the very best of British design. For the next 30 years, the awards celebrated designed objects in all forms, from the domestic to the communal and everything in between, including fitted kitchens, schooners, bicycles and electronics. This beautifully designed book introduces and illustrates the quirky breadth of the awards. Iconic objects by Robin and Lucienne Day, Kenneth Grange and David Mellor sit alongside such retro classics as the Barbican basin, the ZX81 personal computer and Globoot wellies.

Award-Winning British Design: 1957-1988 is available from the V&A Shop

V&A Pattern: Box-set IV
By Mary Schoeser, Anna Buruma, Samantha Erin Safer
£30, Hardback Box Set

'Beautiful and practical, the books are visual summaries of the most sumptuous parts of the V&A collections'.
Royal Academy Magazine

This stunning collectors' slipcase edition, published to celebrate British design, contains four new titles in the series: Modern British Designers, Heal's, Liberty & Co. and Sanderson. The attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections focusing on 1948-2012. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images.

V&A Pattern: Box-set IV is available from the V&A Shop

British Posters: Advertising, Art & Activism
By Catherine Flood
£19.99 Paperback

Drawing on the V&A's extensive poster collection, this book traces the evolution of the poster in the hands of graphic designers and fine artists, advertising agencies and counter-cultural groups in Britain since 1945. From conflicts over the content and control of public space to posters blu-tacked to our bedroom walls, Catherine Flood examines how the poster in Britain has adapted itself to a changing technological environment and defied predictions of its demise.

British Posters: Advertising, Art & Activism is available from the V&A Shop