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Raise Your Hands, Bowled Over & In A Pickle!

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Raise Your Hands, Bowled Over & In A Pickle! What a week! Paris was fantastic and we have found some really exciting pieces to dazzle you in the Spring! In my bid to source philanthropic pieces that not only please the eye but gladden the heart I am thrilled to report that we have found artisans still operating in Aleppo, Syria!! Not only are they incredibly brave but wonderfully talented and we have soaps and lamps winging their way to us shortly! If anyone is visiting the City Of Lights in the near future I would like to recommend the restaurant Hébé which is in the Latin Quarter near to Notre Dame. Only 4 months old it has taken Paris by storm; the food is wonderful and lives up the hype and please speak to the owner as he is utterly charming and will greet you like an old friend! Exceptional for vegetarians too. Shop Now - Benamôr Hand Creams - £7.50 This week I am delighted to announce the arrival of my favourite hand creams. The...

Greetings From Paris!

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Greetings From Paris! I do suffer terribly in this job and today I am writing to you from my hotel near the Gard Du Nord in Paris as the lovely Lene and myself are attending an international exhibition in the hope of finding some more talent to grace our shelves!  Last w/e, in London, we attended something similar, but petit, and have already found a delightful potter from Devon, a very clever Londoner who takers everyday forms like bricks, tin cans and chimney pots and transforms them into desirable objects and a wonderful company producing alpaca throws and scarves based in Kent - so 2019 is inspiring me already. Of course we are unsure if will will be able to buy very much from this show due the political situation and the uncertainty surrounding import duty however I am trying to maintain a cautious optimism in the face of adversity! Please note that I didn't mention the B word once! Another very gratifying moment occurred when listening to the...

In Memoriam

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In Memoriam Today marks the second anniversary of the untimely death of the the founder of this store, and my partner, Lawrence Roullier White, so I thought that it would be appropriate to celebrate the creativity, vision and humour that still defines the business today. Lawrence was incredibly talented and guided the retail offers of some of the UK's more venerable institutions including The Royal Academy and The Natural History Museum. Shop Now - Roaring Twenties Greeting Cards - £3.50 Roullier White embodies everything that he learned over his career including his passion for discovering and supporting new talent, and is also the expression of his own considerable creative juices. He was passionate about independent retail and customer service, ensuring that every product on our shelves was the best of its kind in some shape or form and that, whenever he could, they would also make the world a ...