Category: home
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New Home: West Comes East to be Part of the Furniture
Style travels well, and judging from the stunning arrival of West Elm on this side of the pond, the American home fashion retailer is about to make serious waves in the UK decor market. The essential elements have been transported safely with its distinctive high wall displays, blocked shelving, colour story chic and opulent ornaments…
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Open: Welcome to the House of Fun
Something pretty peculiar popped up in Islington. The coolest collection of contemporary living from the safest pair of hands in British retail. Open House is a month long pop-up experience exclusively featuring the House collection of John Lewis. The whole is housed in a two-floor space with the ground level given over to informally segmented…
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Wicked Company: An Invitation to Indulge
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, home, luxury, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingNo longer Whiter than White. Invitations abound and temptations await around every corner as The White Company urges its customers to wallow in the beauty of its assortment and experience first hand the softness, the quality, the fineness and the sheer irresistibility of its products. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase…
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The White Company: Living life in the Soft Lane!
There surely cannot be a better example of why online retailing will never replace the physical store than The White Company. The recent opening of the extension of Westfield London sees the latest incarnation of the home retailer, now lifestyle retailer, inviting the customer to literally dive into the sumptuous textures and fabrics that make-up…
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Loaf at your Leisure: Disruptive Relaxation
Loaf, in a purely traditional definition, is a retailer of sofas, beds and furniture. However in the context of the traditional way of doing business it is a disruptor of the highest order bringing new ideas, imagination and inspiration to the table of home retailing. To begin, Loaf is not just a clever name…
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House of Hackney: passionate people producing amazing experiences
To step off Shoreditch High Street into the House of Hackney is a journey into such a wonderful world of sumptuous colour and texture that a visit to Narnia itself would be no more astounding. And that is not to sleight Shoreditch but to extoll the voluptuous virtues of this home emporium that it so…
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Pop-Up for Tea: Tasteful Treats from a world of Wedgwood
A mere meander from the horticultural highlights of the Chelsea flower show is a marriage made in heritage heaven between Wedgwood and John Lewis. Just a few steps into the foyer of Peter Jones in Sloane Square is a land of serene ceramics and tasteful elegance, a month-long pop-up experience that turns tasteful into…
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Sitting Pretty: John Lewis gets Materialistic
Sitting Pretty on the crest of the omni-channel retail wave John Lewis continues to be a master at combining the strengths of the past with the opportunities of the future. Sometimes exemplified on a substantial scale as in the mammoth overhaul of its operational structure for cross-channel availability and delivery, sometimes seen through delicate…
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Home Cooking: IKEA’s Eating Evolution
It is not many yellow and blue moons ago that the food proposition at IKEA revolved around the manifestation of meatballs, supported stoically by sausages in rolls and competitively priced ice-cream cones with a choice of 3 syrups. Whilst these destination delights are fully preserved for both loyal patrons and new generations to discover,…
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Changing Habitat: Survival of the Stylish
Since 1964 Habitat has been adorning the houses and apartments of design-minded Europeans consistently stylish in an ever changing world of taste whilst weathering its own personal storms as it passed from its visionary founder Sir Terence Conran through several corporate reincarnations until settling recently in the Sainsbury’s stable. And so to Nine Elms…
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