Design notebook: the best decorative mugs Doing up your bathroom? Familiarise yourself with the Danish tile specialist Made a Mano and its brilliant range of handmade screen-printed tiles. One of the more glamorous options, the Komon pattern, shown here in gold and with a delicate crackle glaze, takes its lead from Japanese kimono designs. The 30x30cm sq tiles are £174 per sq m in terracotta, or £436 per sq m in lavastone. Available from Laurence Pidgeon (020-7610 6166). If you're in the market for high-end 20th-century design, pop down to Pad London, where more than 60 exhibitors from around the world will be showing collectable pieces by giants such as Arne Jacobsen, as well as a new generation of designers including Faye Toogood. This Kidassia chair by Fernando & Humberto Campana, made from teak and kidassia goat hair, will be on the Rome-based Galleria O stand. Pad London, October 16-20, London W1, entry £20. Cotton on The interior designer Louise Bradley has recently launched her own fabric line, which includes this textured cotton Cuneo design in white, dark grey and taupe. It costs £85 per m and is suitable for curtains and light upholstery. Laurels for Hardy The collaboration between Terence Conran and Marks & Spencer continues this autumn, once again providing a welcome hit of modern design that has class and personality. The Hardy range of free-standing shelving and occasional tables may not reinvent the wheel, but the pieces are characterful and well made. Coffee table, £399, side table, £249, and bookcase (pictured), £549 . Five of the best: decorative mugs From left Sarjaton, £12, Iittala at Skandium; Utopia boy, £32, Jonathan Adler; Swirly Symmetry, £8, Anthropologie; White Beetle, £17, Liberty, Flora, £5, Habitat