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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: Bloomsbury’s connoisseurs of colour

      L Cornelissen & Son has been supplying artists and printmakers hues since 1855

      The Bloomsbury shopfront of L Cornelissen & Son
    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: handmade furniture with pioneer spirit

      BDDW brings its visionary furnishings, ceramics and artwork to London’s Mount Street

      The London store with (from left) a walnut dining table, £54,000, ceramic and papier-mâché pendant lamp, £15,000, linen Abel sofa, £23,750, Untitled by Tyler Hays, £44,800, and handpainted Bathers jigsaw puzzle by Tyler Hays, £28,000.
    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: an eclectic design gallery with apartment rooms

      8 Holland Street mixes eras, styles, high and low, the familiar and the unexpected

      8 Holland Street in Bath
    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: the Soho bookshop that helps creatives keep their cool

      Idea’s vintage books have inspired Kanye, Elton and Calvin Klein 

      1978 Sneaker Catalog, £300, and Cocaine: Consumer’s Handbook, £250
    • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
      HTSI
      Sophie Ashby brings her interiors ‘mothership’ to Blewcoat

      The designer has set up shop in an old schoolhouse. It’s the sum of all she’s learnt so far 

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Interior designer Kit Kemp’s London

      The woman whose creative vision helped drive the boutique hotel movement shares her sources of inspiration in the UK capital — its architecture, craftspeople, food and flowers

    • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: Tomtom Cigars is smoking hot

      Step inside a haven for connoisseurs of Cuba’s finest

      The new shop space of Tomtom Cigars, redesigned by Mayfair design practice OWN London
    • Friday, 24 September, 2021
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      Cult Shop: the irreverent genius of House of Voltaire

      A brilliant pop-up of artist-designed objects and clothing has finally settled in a permanent home

    • Sunday, 6 June, 2021
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      Cult Shop: Labour and Wait – the store that made a £6 loo brush a must-have luxury

      The utilitarian emporium beloved of hipsters and Rei Kawakubo is finally expanding

    • Monday, 24 May, 2021
      FT Globetrotter
      Tips from the top

      Business and cultural leaders share insider guides to their cities

    • Wednesday, 19 May, 2021
      HTSI
      The 50 greatest food stores in the world

      Where to find the best produce on the planet, from classic New York delis and Indian spice emporiums to German sausage shops

      Lina Stores, London
    • Sunday, 16 May, 2021
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: Japanese and Nordic design converges under one London roof

      Belgravia’s Pantechnicon is a five-storey feast for the senses

    • Monday, 19 April, 2021
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: a motorcyclist’s nirvana in Stoke Newington

      Bolt is a shrine to retro-inspired biking culture – from one-off machines to exclusive clothing 

    • Sunday, 18 April, 2021
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      Cult Shop: Summerill and Bishop, a tablescaper’s heaven

      Inside the Holland Park destination for heirloom linens and artisanal tableware

    • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
      The complete guide to a flawless complexion
      Inside Dr Barbara Sturm’s first London boutique

      The cult beauty brand, renowned for its ‘vampire facial’, has claimed a space in Mayfair

      Barbara Sturm’s new London boutique and spa
    • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
      Life & Arts
      FT readers choose their favourite bookshops

      We asked you to share your preferred places for browsing and buying

    • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
      FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
      Life during lockdown: FT readers’ London tips

      The fishmongers, bakers, grocers, vintners and more who’ve helped make it bearable, as recommended by you

    • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
      FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
      ‘Glimmers of good living’: the FT’s London lockdown discoveries

      From ordering epicurean adventures to swimming in the Thames — via collecting cool jumpsuits — here’s how we got through it first time around

    • Friday, 23 October, 2020
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      The world’s best antique and vintage furniture stores

      A global guide to the greatest second-hand interior haunts

      Alex MacArthur at her shop in Rye, East Sussex
    • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
      HTSI
      The 21 best menswear stores in the world

      From a specialist shoe shop in Florence to a Paris tailor or a vintage dealer in Japan, our expert guide to independent retailers should fit every shape of style

      Drake’s
    • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
      HTSI
      Eleven of the world’s best fashion boutiques

      From Copenhagen to North Carolina, Moscow to Montreal, the independent stores with their own takes on trends

      Sylvie Chateigner and her partner Amnaye Nhas at Thanx God I’m a VIP
    • Monday, 24 February, 2020
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Tips from the Top: Jancis Robinson’s best wine addresses in London

      The FT’s wine columnist reveals her favourite clubs, cellars and bars in the capital

      Jancis Robinson photographed for The FT by Tori Ferenc.
    • Monday, 27 January, 2020
      FT Globetrotter
      London with the FT

      Where to squeeze in a spin class, proper breakfasts for protein fiends, and more

    • Friday, 15 November, 2019
      Peter Harrington Rare Books: a trove of first editions in Chelsea

      This quirky London cache of first, early and signed editions provides present inspiration for Hollywood royalty, world leaders and “kings of Silicon Valley”

      Pom Harrington, owner of Peter Harrington Rare Books
    • Sunday, 20 October, 2019
      HTSI
      Mad Atelier: an exuberant design store in Hackney

      A renovated pub is a hotbed of Mediterranean style, from showstopping sofas to playful lights

      Mad Atelier owners Chantal Martinelli and Julien Desormeaux
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