Paul Nash: Wonderfully particular
I had my beady eye on this book coming out. Paul Nash is an artist and designer I always find...
Tag: illustration
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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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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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Braemar number
Shelf Appeal has accumulated a few pieces of ephemera advertising the Braemar wool clothing label. They used fashion illustration very...
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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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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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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...
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Makes you smile
Shop windows aren’t what they used to be. Christmas is the season. But apart from Selfridges and Harvey Nichols (for...
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Simpson and Jones
Shelf Appeal is very fond of Barbara Jones’ illustrations. And very fond indeed of the shop that was Simpson Piccadilly...
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Up my street
It is always nice to see people following their passion. Design for Today is a new imprint making very nice...
