Homeware shopping in London
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Aram
Despite the fact that most of the furniture stocked by Aram is unaffordable to ordinary mortals, admiring the designer pieces in this fantastic shop is an experience to be cherished. Originally opened by Zeev Aram on King’s Rd in 1964, the shop was a key player in the Conran-led furniture design revolution that saw the end of a chintz-laden Britain. The shop grew and eventually moved to this four-floor, free-standing luminous building, where the furniture is given the space it deserves, as if in a museum. Among the many accomplished designers, Aram stocks pieces by Alvar Aalto, Eileen Grey, Eames, Le Corbusier and Arne Jacobsen. The top floor is an exhibition space, where…
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Black + Blum
You might see ‘James the doorman/bookend’ (a human-shaped doorstop/bookend) and ‘Mr and Mrs Hangup’ (anthropomorphic coat hooks that can indicate your mood through a choice of eyes) in numerous gift shops across town, but this Anglo-Swiss partnership produces more wonderful stuff in its shop, such as the intricate wire ‘bowl’ called a Fruit Loop or the Spudski potato masher inspired by a ski pole.
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Labour & Wait
Dedicated to simple and functional yet scrumptiously stylish traditional British homewares, Labour & Wait specialises in items by independent manufacturers who make their products the old-fashioned way. There are school tumblers, enamel coffee pots, luxurious lambswool blankets, elegant ostrich-feather dusters and gardening tools. Note the limited opening hours.
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Habitat
Started by the visionary designer and restaurateur Terence Conran in the 1950s, Habitat still does what it originally set out to do – brighten up your home with inventive and inspiring furniture and decorations. Artists, actors, musicians and fashion designers are often employed to design something of their own. The chain is found across London.
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Gill Wing
Gill Wing’s wonderfully individual boutiques have colonised this strip of Upper St – her shoe shop is much loved, the gift shop is full of amusing and garishly designed presents, but the real favourite is her stylish cook shop that has launched the dreams of many an aspirant Islington homemaker.
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Do Shop
A great collection of quirky designer furniture, kitchenware and home accessories; check out the versatile tables that double as bookshelves or scrunched-up paper cups that are made of porcelain, really. Perfect for presents (to self, as well as others).
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Cath Kidston
Cath Kidston has single-handedly made floral patterns and pastel colours fashionable again. She splashes her homewares and handbags with funky floral designs, and is famous for her polka-dot picnic tableware and 1950s-style watering cans.
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Heal’s
Heal’s is more serious, classical and expensive than Habitat, serving a more conservative, yet practical clientele. It’s a long-established furniture and homewares store. Check out the great kitchenware section.
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Westland London
If you’re renovating, do not visit this treasure house of salvaged lamps, fireplaces and architectural elements. You’ll want everything you see and you’ll never be able to get it all home.
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Ceramica Blue
A wonderful place for original and beautiful crockery, imported from more than a dozen countries: there’s Japanese eggshell-glaze teacups, serving plates with tribal South African designs and much more.
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Past Caring
Stuffed full of second-hand retro bric-a-brac from ashtrays and 1970s LPs to mannequins and loud china, this wonderful shop is so removed from the modern world that it doesn’t even have a phone number.
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Joy
This spacious, two-storey 'urban lifestyle' shop is aptly named; it truly is a delight. And although its mens- and womenswear is new and trendy, its saucy, quirky homewares fit right into the Greenwich scene.
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Fabrications
This shop does a lot for the recycling cause, making mostly soft furnishings for the home such as cushions, rugs and mats from unusual and unexpected material, from bicycle tyre tubes to used ribbon.
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Eccentricities
The name fits – the huge sprawling building is full of weird and wonderful furniture and bric-a-brac, some reproduction, some antique.
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