Tom Dixon - Wharf Building - London

Tom Dixon Shop

Wharf Building

Portobello Dock

344 Ladbroke Grove

London W10 5BU

Tom Dixon

On monday I took a walk along Ladbroke Grove

to check out Tom Dixon's shop on

Portobello Dock.

In a pleasing atmosphere lit by Tom's lamps 

I found many of my favorite products,

after which I sat and drank a good cup of coffee

at a table by the water.

HOSTEM - The One Room Hotel - JAMESPLUMB

From the moment you step through the stripped

wooden front door of HOSTEM at number 

41- 43 Redchurch Street, London E2,

you breathe a different air and sense a shift in

sensibility. The stimuli are brought about by your 

reaction to the decor and ambience in this unique

menswear store. Everything you look at is 

interesting and begs investigation. 

The  interior was created by the design duo 

JAMESPLUMB (see below).

The people who welcome you into this two 

room space are friendly and effortlessly cool. 

The fact that they know they are in a special place, 

translates into positive energy.

Then there's the impressive roll call of designers 

represented on the racks. 

HOSTEM is altogether a good experience.

http://www.hostem.co.uk/

Together HOSTEM and JAMESPLUMB created 

The One Room Hotel

http://www.theoneroomhotel.co.uk

At the same address but with a separate entrance, this

is an opportunity to live the JAMESPLUMB experience.

Apparently you have the feeling of being transported 

into a Dickensian space and time.

I can well believe this, as a while ago I attended a 

JAMESPLUMB installation at the Spazio Rossana Orlandi 

http://clothespeggs.blogspot.com/2011/09/spazio-rossana-orlandi-milano.html

in Milan. The ambience that JAMESPLUMB had created

at Orlandi's space was nostalgic and comforting in a

tattered, rusty way, yet contemporarily tinged with irony

and originality.

http://www.jamesplumb.co.uk/

Labour and Wait in London's East End

Walking past this corner shop in Shoreditch looking

in through the windows as I went by, curiosity pulled

me back and had me walk into the store. 

There is something so pure about the place. 

I browsed the clearly displayed goods, picking 

up things that I hadn't seen for, perhaps, decades.

It was as though I'd stepped through a time portal. 

So much of what I looked at in this curiosity shop of 

household goods and clothes took me back to my youth.

A very stylish, clean and comforting experience.

Click on this link to visit their tumblr page:

http://labour-and-wait.tumblr.com/

Timberland Boot Company - No longer at 1 Fournier Street, Spitalfields, London E1

This shop is now empty :-(

http://www.timberlandbootcompany.com/