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