Invalid Delicacies
Invalid is a word one seldom hears these days. It’s certainly not a word found on a greeting card in...
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Moderna Mytholmroyd
The industrial landscape of West Yorkshire, much of it to do with 19th and 20th century textile history, is still...
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Paris
Paris is Shelf Appeal’s favorite city. Not simply because they do the best fashion and toy exhibitions there. Not only...
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Wolsey weekending
Shelf Appeal is a fan of Wolsey advertising from the first half of the 20th century. It came in two...
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Cranks introduction
Shelf Appeal is vegetarian and has been in London just long enough to remember the Cranks café/restaurants. There is always...
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January sale
The department store Jones & Higgins of Peckham, London closed in 1980 and I missed visiting it. Established in Rye...
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Sunny delight
Shelf Appeal is in danger of becoming the Ashley Havinden blog. Havinden’s name is all too frequently dotted around these...
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Dress making
Shelf Appeal often has dressmaking on the mind. Despite not sewing as much as I used to, I still love...
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Museum of Natural History
Shelf Appeal has a soft spot for illustrations of museums. Museum is my key word. I like old illustrations...
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Before the wild things
Shelf Appeal likes an exhibition catalogue. Or two. Particularly those little catalogues it seems aren’t viable to produce much any...
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Cashmere classics
Spring is about looking at pretty things: flowers, budding trees, men’s ankles in Hoxton (that from a Tweet I...
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A case of wonderful
Romping (relatively speaking) around Gothenburg last week, Shelf Appeal had a few hours of magical museological meandering in The...