Michael Jackson stamps…
…spotted in Covent Garden. I really want these for my stamp collection.
Idea Books – I die
Wow wee. I finally made it to the Idea Books pop-up shop at St Martins Lane Hotel. If you know Dover Street Market, you’ll know Idea Books. It’s the vintage book/magazine bit on the ground floor that’s always heaving with vintage mag porn of the Interview/Ritz/Vogue variety, alongside lots of lovely rare fash-art book finds. So the pop-up shop in St Martins Lane is like a bigger, sexier, even more enviable version of that. Put it this way: I’d happily live there.
As an added bonus, the pop-up shop has been installed in collaboration with Vitsoe shelving. If you’re a shelving snob like me, that will mean something to you, if not you can get a close-up of the shelves (and some books) here.
Shopkeeper-on-duty and co-owner David, kindly indulged me in letting me take a few snaps for the blog, despite my rather clumsy attempt at small talk (sample quote: “your books are very expensive, do you have anything cheap?” Cringe.) Anyhoo, the shop is open until the end of the month – go check it out.
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I want this so much right now!
Alas, I don’t have $350…anyone want to buy it for me? Or will I have to make do with this?
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No more Obs?
Eek. Not happy about the news that The Observer newspaper may be on its last legs. What am I going to do without my monthly fix of Observer Woman magazine (which is also known as PV mag in my house as all the best bits are written by Polly Vernon)? Not to mention Mariella Frostrup’s no-nonsense problem page in the weekly mag and my favourite business and finance pages in the paper. Ugh, this sucks.
