Gosh. I’m back on Lladro watch. If you’re not familiar, Lladro are the Spanish porcelain pedlers that serve up high kitsch figurines, bought by Godknowswho. I often pass their London shop, but I’m too scared to go in, lest I get disorientated and emerge with a £2,000 Venitian gondola sculpture. Or one of these ‘Childhood Vignettes’.

But it’s not all back-of-the-Radio Times weirdness. A picture in this month’s Living Etc reminded me of the company’s collaborations with the terrific Jaime Hayon, the latest of which are these entirely useless ‘Metropolis’ boxes and vases.

I think it’s the pastel colours, but they’d look alright on my sideboard, gathering dust. By the by, I last wrote about Lladro here, and while googling for the image above I found a nice coda to the Mormon Missionary sculpture I mentioned there – a Mormon blogger sharing a small-world-innit story about his son being rendered, unknowingly, in porcelain.