24 May 2013, 10am-8pm & 25 May, 10am-7pm
We are very excited to hear that one of our favourite US fashion brands, J.Crew, is opening its first stand-alone store in Europe on Regent Street this November, but even better news is that next week they’re dipping their toes… Continue reading
Scarlet and Violet pop up shop at Couverture: 21 - 25 May 2013. Vic Brotherson's flower arranging demos: 23 May - 10am, 12pm & 2pm
This is a triple whammy of delights, which will inevitably lead to Too Much Shopping. But we are calming the slightly panicking feeling we get when confronted by many tempting things available to buy (how to choose? how to justify?),… Continue reading
Mon-Fri: 11am-7pm & Sat: midday-5pm
As regular readers will know, we are huge fans of Scandinavian midcentury modern furniture and our eyes are always peeled for great quality, good value pieces. We bought a Danish rosewood chest of drawers a few years ago at a… Continue reading
We’re always on the look out for great T-shirts, both in fit and design. Really good ones for men, unless completely plain, seem to be particularly elusive. Thornback and Peel do good ones and Rogues Gallery… Continue reading
Saturday Mornings, 9am - 2pm
Did you know that Liberty’s even has a tailor? We didn’t until we were shopping there recently and bought a jacket that needed some small alterations. Hanne Laitinen has been working as a tailor for over forty years and has… Continue reading
How we wish Hester Gray London had been up and running when we got married in London a couple of years ago, and had friends and family coming from abroad who wanted to stay somewhere as comfortable as a hotel,… Continue reading
Gone are the Australian bars that used to cluster around Earl’s Court tube station, for much to our surprise when we visited the area this week, it’s all change, change, change. We started off with a visit to Ping, a… Continue reading
What a lovely shopping website Cachette is. Put together by an Anglo-French couple with impeccable taste, the site sells useful and really well designed things: objects, stationery, accessories, stuff for your kitchen, bathroom, utility room and garden, food, gifts, toys,… Continue reading
Website design London by Joe Smalley. Wallpaper: from the Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers. Courtesy British Library Board.
