Museums & Galleries Ltd has been developing its table top offer for some time, and this season sees the fruits of all this work coming together in a compellingly coordinated way.

M&G’s bottles range has been expanded this season to 10 designs, all double wall insulated stainless steel with secure-seal screw tops with silicone seals. The bottles are suitable for either hot or cold drinks, retaining heat for about 12 hours and keeping contents cold for 24 hours. Technological innovations allow the new generation of bottles to be fully printed across the bottle contour, displaying the designs to their full potential. Catherine Rowe’s stunning ‘Honey Bee’ pattern covers one of the new bottles, and Dee Hardwicke’s ‘Hares and Berries’ a second. One of the stand-out designs is a visually ravishing ‘Ulysses Butterflies and Lemons’ design from the Natural History Museum. There are two William Morris designs from the V&A, as well as Edward Lear’s perennially popular comic ‘Birds’ and an orientally inspired 18th-century design by William Kilburn. Hokusai’s ‘Cranes in Flight’ comes from the British Museum and an Amethyst close-up from the NHM covers the last bottle. The bottles have a suggested retail price of £22.99.

New for this year are 12 double wall insulated stainless steel Travel Tumblers, designed to hold 450ml liquid in a perfectly cylindrical tumbler with a push-top for access and a sliding seal designed for on-the-go drinking (SRP £19.99). Four of the mugs feature V&A designs - the wondrously flaming Japanese Kimono Cranes; two richly textured and deeply blue-green William Morris favourites; and a new Dutch Delft blue-and-white tile design depicting the glorious age of sail. Mary Delany’s intricate and delicate paper collage flower pieces feature on one of the British Museum mugs; the other is a witty recreation of Hokusai’s famous Great Wave print - possibly appropriate for a drinking cup! Vincent Van Gogh’s famous Almond Blossom rounds out the classic art on offer, with the remaining five mugs featuring M&G’s contemporary designers – two breathtaking designs from young star designer Catherine Rowe (a yellow and blue Cornflowers and her best-selling black, green and yellow Honey Bee pattern); Helen Ahpornsiri’s wistfully delicate collaged Hare and Flowers; Dee Hardwicke’s Hares and Berries; and veteran designer Sarah Campbell’s stunning Coffee Break.

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