Shopping in London
Shopping in London isn’t what it was, even what it was in 2000, when Shelf Appeal moved down. There are...
Tag: design
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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...
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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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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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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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The Mr and Mrs Cook Book
Last year Shelf Appeal was doing some research on interwar cookbooks and leaflets. It’s a bit of a wheeze for...