LondonShopping

Gifts, Souvenir shopping in London

  1. A

    Compendia

    Compendia’s owners are madly enthusiastic about games – board or any other kind –and they’ll look for the rarest of things if you ask them to. The shop is excellent for gifts you can enjoy with your mates – ­backgammon, chess, Scrabble, solitaire and rarities such as Mexican Train Domino, which claims to be the world’s fastest game.

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  2. B

    Arty Globe

    The unique fisheye-view drawings of various areas of London (and other cities, including New York, Paris and Berlin) by architect Hartwig Braun are works of art and appear on the shopping bags, placemats, notebooks, coasters, mugs and jigsaws available in this tiny shop. They make excellent gifts.

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