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  • 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...

  • The story of a carrot

    4 April 2018

    Shelf Appeal is far too sniffy to take part in hashtag nonsense on social media. Except. This one was too...

  • Shopping in London

    1 March 2018

    Shopping in London isn’t what it was, even what it was in 2000, when Shelf Appeal moved down. There are...

  • Party outings

    3 December 2017

    The train angst season is upon us. Cancellations, missing tea trolley services, overcrowded carriages, missing reservations, hassled travellers, luggage racks...

  • Braemar number

    25 September 2017

    Shelf Appeal has accumulated a few pieces of ephemera advertising the Braemar wool clothing label. They used fashion illustration very...

  • Cranks introduction

    8 February 2017

    Shelf Appeal is vegetarian and has been in London just long enough to remember the Cranks café/restaurants. There is always...

  • Museum of Natural History

    28 June 2016

      Shelf Appeal has a soft spot for illustrations of museums. Museum is my key word. I like old illustrations...

  • Before the wild things

    5 June 2016

    Shelf Appeal likes an exhibition catalogue. Or two. Particularly those little catalogues it seems aren’t viable to produce much any...

  • The Mr and Mrs Cook Book

    22 March 2016

    Last year Shelf Appeal was doing some research on interwar cookbooks and leaflets. It’s a bit of a wheeze for...

  • Makes you smile

    29 November 2015

    Shop windows aren’t what they used to be. Christmas is the season. But apart from Selfridges and Harvey Nichols (for...

  • Simpson and Jones

    11 October 2015

    Shelf Appeal is very fond of Barbara Jones’ illustrations. And very fond indeed of the shop that was Simpson Piccadilly...

  • Up my street

    21 June 2015

    It is always nice to see people following their passion. Design for Today is a new imprint making very nice...

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