Paul Nash: Wonderfully particular
I had my beady eye on this book coming out. Paul Nash is an artist and designer I always find...
I had my beady eye on this book coming out. Paul Nash is an artist and designer I always find...
I have been on a bit of book binge over Christmas, getting around to reading some of my books about...
I do like baskets. My first proper (as in paid) museum job, at Bankfield Museum in Halifax meant I looked...
Some few magazines have snuck onto my shelves just because they have nice covers. I am a cover queen, I...
A theme that repeats itself throughout my blog is shop-related ephemera. I have studied shop display history and always been...
Shelf Appeal likes the outsides of shops. And the insides. This photographic postcard is one of a very few images...
Shelf Appeal is far too sniffy to take part in hashtag nonsense on social media. Except. This one was too...
Shopping in London isn’t what it was, even what it was in 2000, when Shelf Appeal moved down. There are...
Socks are famously a Christmas present for men. Along with, or instead of, a Boots gift box of Old Spice...
The train angst season is upon us. Cancellations, missing tea trolley services, overcrowded carriages, missing reservations, hassled travellers, luggage racks...
Shelf Appeal likes a work of scholarly specificity and also likes wallpaper. Having written a chapter for the book The...
The allure of a smiling face in a graphic (or on a mug, or pretty much anywhere) never gets tired...