… but how then do you explain why shops exist round the year?
We obsess over the vintage we sell and try to keep a running ‘documentary’ of all pieces but sometime we miss and they go off with someone – no photographs and soon they’re forgotten… Today I sold a beautiful burgundy cheongsam lace dress [...]
Category Archives: store item
‘Tis the season of no reason to shop I know
Monday, March 1, 2010
Office literature
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The office system relies on the paper shredder, while the creative system in our friend Mr Tanaka pieces together what he collects to give new life to office literature. Memo pads in various sizes, photo albums, card holders, ball point pens and push pins. All these wonderful things made of what we throw away everyday [...]
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Charles Bukowski, Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf’s short fiction, a Daniel Johnston book, a quick history guide for graphics, A.A. Milne and a couple of other poetry books – these are the books we have sold randomly. When the tenants upstairs moved away, we recycled some of their old cupboards into a mini bookshelf, fit for [...]
The Modular Collection
Friday, February 5, 2010
A few items of the year’s first collection. The rest will be in store sometime next week.
[Catalogue]
A Love Letter To Posterity
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Dear You,
The last good thing to have happened to me in 2009 was becoming the owner of rare milliner’s parts. As old and (some) fragile as they are, color appears almost as rich as the day they were dyed. I had originally wanted to add them in to my personal collection, but the more I [...]
The Sound A Bell Makes
Monday, January 25, 2010
He said no word of her to us
Nor we of her to him,
But oh it saddened us to see
How wan he grew and thin.
We said: she eats him day and night
And draws the blood from him,
We did not know but said we thought
This was why he grew thin.
One day we called and rang the bell
No [...]
The River’s Silver
Sunday, January 24, 2010
If you are on the lookout for minimalist accessories and generally avoid shiny types, silver panned from the river may just be right for you. It feels natural because it is natural. And it’s fair trade too.
Old Thing
Thursday, January 21, 2010
I collect things old and seldom wonder who had them before I came along. I find myself thinking how the object, now in my hand, had once looked at people, and how that has changed when it looks at me today. I also find it amazing how we have discovered so much as mankind, yet [...]
Vintage Accessories
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Our Vintage corner is bursting with pendant necklaces from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
See some here.
Where is the year’s heart?
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
VII.
I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too –
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.
With A Flower, Emily Dickinson
As for me, so fast. Too sudden. And the more with each year I encounter.
For tousled lovers [...]
