On holiday last year I bought some brightly coloured, ceramic, retro-styled hanging plant containers – I couldn’t resist the gorgeous, glossy hues and they were just so different to anything I’d seen before. I found them in the gift shop at Sunnylands, a stunning example of modernist architecture just outside of Palm Springs, and their groovy, retro shapes fitted right in with the local mid-century ambience. We were having an amazing trip to Southern California,…