Living: Royal Wedding in two minutes.

Produced by Jim Powell.

Living: Right Royal retail, from our

Cambridge correspondent, Chris Draper.

Living: Further dispatches from the Front.

Photographs by Nicola Heindl, London.

Living: The word on the street,

from our UK correspondents.

Living: Fairy Liquid, est 1960,

by appt to HM. Royal Wedding edition.

Courtesy of India Knight's Posterous.

Living at Ancient Industries: Black Goose by

E. Q. Nicholson. Designed in 1938, reproduced

by Borderline a few years back, and made into

functioning objects by Wayne Pate quite recently.

Windfall

Woodland

Josephine

Living: Cressida Bell,

modern Bloomsberry.

Living:

"Sing a song of sixpence,

A pocketful of rye.

Four and twenty blackbirds,

Baked in a pie.*

When the pie was opened,

The birds began to sing;

Wasn't that a dainty dish,

To set before the king?"

Ancient Industries cooks up the

Royal Registry for Remodelista.

Pie vent from Fortnum & Mason.

*a 16th century indulgence for

livening up dull dinner parties

Shop by Anglia Dolls Houses

Living: Kensington Dollshouse Festival.

Living:

Street party accessories from

Fortnum and Mason and Party Pieces

(the Middleton family firm).

Elizabeth II coronation, 1953

Edward VIII coronation, 1937

War is ended, empire still intact

Living: The street party. Begun as Peace

Teas at the end of the war to end all wars,

they are now associated with royal events.

Queen Mary, 1936, rejected for the First Class Lounge

West Wind, 1931

Grapes, 1932, used at Charleston and Monk's House

Revived: Textiles of Duncan Grant (1885-1978),

designed in the 1930s, recently re-launched by

the Charleston Trust, and available in various

forms in a limited edition at Ancient Industries.

Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Living: Knit Your Own Royal Wedding,

a 64 page manual devised by Fiona Goble.

Photograph by Kendra Wilson.

The Chelsea Arts Club by Henry Bishop (1868-1939)

Cocktail Party by Phil May (1864-1903)

Laughing and Winking Girl (as above)

Two Ings

Chelsea Arts Club Dazzle Ball, 1919

Photograph by Bertram Park, NPG

Welcome to the Ladies

Living: The Chelsea Arts Club, est 1891 by Whistler,

Sickert and others in search of something less starchy

than the Arts Club in Piccadilly.

Living: Simnel Cake. A Medieval Easter fruit cake, with

the disciples (minus Judas) represented as marzipan balls.

Re-launched: Mary Fedden's Egg

and Feather and Hellebore back in

production at Emma Bridgewater.

Living: McVitie's Rich Tea Biscuit.

Created about 400 years ago, the favoured bickie

of

grannies

gets invited to the Royal Wedding.

Living: Nuetra and Eames house numbers

by Heath Ceramics and House Industries

(who also have a nice blog).

Living: Heath Ceramics, established in Sausalito,

California by modernist designer Edith Heath in 1948.

Bought and revitalized in 2003 by Robin Petravic and

Catherine Bailey. They have a good blog too.

Photographs by Leslie Williamson,

who also has a good blog.

Extinct: Margaret Jerrold shoes,

by Margaret Clark and her husband

Jerrold Miller, grandson of I. Miller.