Time for a cuppa? Here are the hottest vintage-style kettles 

No time like now to boil down the huge choice of colours and styles available, with a nod to these brewing beauties' history 

MacKenzie-Childs stovetop kettle.

QUIVERING on the edge of September, it’s time to put the kettle on five times of an evening (conservatively). What better time to look at some of the hottest, iconic kettles, their lines firmly rooted in the past century or so.

The three principal forms are the squat, stovetop, the taller cylinder pot and the dome or pyramid, made desirable by Smeg (KLF04) and the Morphy Richards. After that, the chassis, colour, finish, spout, handle and controls will determine styling.