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  • May we help you?

    9 July 2018

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

  • Enveloped

    1 November 2015

    Envelopes are rather satisfying things. In amongst the paper bits and pieces that Shelf Appeal has tucked away is this...

  • The stationer’s shop

    31 May 2015

    Illustrations of shops and shopping pull me in like a magnet. Historical ones. New ones. I like them in a...

  • Hoard it

    10 November 2013

    This week Shelf Appeal was referred to as someone who ‘likes paper bags and cake’. There is no defense against...

  • Swing low

    2 September 2013

    A new de luxe garden Hammock this.  Fresh and lovely and sold by Fortnum & Mason in 1936. All pieces...

  • Hey Hay

    7 July 2013

    I first came across the brand HAY in Copenhagen where they have a shop and a lot of presence across...

  • Kayser boys

    18 May 2013

    The marketing of women’s stockings has taken interesting turns and twists (or runs and ladders) over the years. The sexual...

  • A nice paper thing

    4 October 2011

    The recent demise of Habitat shops outside of London saddened me. Not for Habitat as it traded recently. But for...

  • Presents for Particular People

    12 December 2010

    I was prompted to write this post by a Tweet on Twitter about a small exhibition of Heal’s posters. More...

  • His Happy Christmas

    16 December 2007

    A man can never have too many good ties or socks. These particular ‘plain or fancy’ socks come from a...

  • Icing on the cake

    27 June 2007

    Shops and their signature colours. Lovely. Harrod’s green. Selfridge’s yellow. Liberty purple. Fortnum & Mason’s eau de nil. I’m not...

  • Perfect in its bloom

    12 May 2007

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

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