1930s - Jane Audas

Paul Nash: Wonderfully particular

23 May 2022

I had my beady eye on this book coming out. Paul Nash is an artist and designer I always find...

9 July 2018

Shelf Appeal likes the outsides of shops. And the insides. This photographic postcard is one of a very few images...

1 January 2018

Socks are famously a Christmas present for men. Along with, or instead of, a Boots gift box of Old Spice...

9 July 2017

The industrial landscape of West Yorkshire, much of it to do with 19th and 20th century textile history, is still...

24 August 2014

The ‘smooth to the sensitive skin’ promise of this Meridian underwear booklet is borne out in a small sample of...

21 April 2014

Whilst I try not to collect Penguin and Puffin books, the paper things that advertised them creep on to the...

9 February 2014

Typical Shelf Appeal, this. Have the paper ‘list’ catalogue but not the books listed. Although I have, over the years,...

31 October 2013

Shelf Appeal normally likes an oldish book or booklet. A bit of rust around the staples and a bit of...

20 June 2012

An envelope is a nice thing in and of itself. An envelope for a special purpose is perhaps even nicer. This...

3 June 2007

Among lots of other tasty exhibits in the V&A; Surrealism exhibition there is the iconic lobster dress of 1937, designed...

12 May 2007

What to buy for your Spring wardrobe? In 1935 from May 18th to 23rd, London store D H Evans (once...