Turner & Harper at Labour and Wait

If you happen to be near Redchurch St this Design Week, go see these BEAUTIFULLY made brushes & homewares by Turner & Harper.

Michael Marriott

And another thing at SCP this week: Mr. Marriotts homage to Brancusi installation.
If you are in the neighbourhood, do pop in and see all the beautiful things in store for Design week.

Donna Wilson

Donna Wilson has a new collection out!
Go see it in the flesh, from tomorrow at SCP

House Industries

 

As a fan of the ampersand, I think House Industries designed this table just for me.

KH

Lubna Chowdhary

Lubna now has an online SHOP!

Present & Correct

P&C is one of our favourite shops....such brilliant stock, old & new..

Charity Shops on Kingsland Road

Had a rummage in some charity shops on Kingsland Road today, which were full of lovely lovely things.
Its a shame I cannot play a note, the piano & accordian were beautiful....
(the orangey red pattern is a book cover)

Kissing Goodbye to Cheshire Street SALE

After ten happy years as a site of pilgrimage in Spitalfields, we are leaving Cheshire St to concentrate on doing the things we love.

We want to make SHELF much more special.

We want to spend more time creating our own SHELF products.

We are going to improve the web shop and direct our ingenuity towards devising & designing lovely things, getting out there, participating and collaborating, and enjoying ourselves by having stalls, markets and parties at seasonal events.

We are up for all kinds of cunning new ideas, get in touch if you have one?

It's a new year and change is in the air.

So we are going to have a major spring clean as part of our transformation, because in the short term we are going to be strapped for space in our new studio, and we need to divest ourselves of some clutter.

For example:

Rob Ryan framed Prints & tiles,

Moomin Mugs,

Bitossi ceramic cats,

Architectmade wooden birds & ducks,

NUD lighting

 . . . too many bargains to mention!

THE GRAND SHELF CLEARANCE SALE: 

30% + off, INSTORE ONLY!

Opening hours: 

Thurs, Fri, Sat 12 - 6pm, Sundays 10 - 6pm

Starts Friday 21st Jan 2011, runs throughout Feb 2011

We are also selling some of our beautiful furniture, so do spread the word, or come and have a look!

We will of course be blogging, tweeting, putting new & exciting things into the web shop & popping up around London . . . who knows where else?

SHELF

40 Cheshire Street, London E2 6EH. 

www.helpyourshelf.co.uk

email:shop@helpyourshelf.co.uk

020 7739 9444

water bottle

This water bottle has one of our most favourite Rob Ryan Illustrations on it ever.
Amazingly the colours are exactly as the original tile design we stocked a good few years ago.

I cant think of a better gift to encourage the small people in our lives to drink more water!
You can buy one here

christmas!!

We've been busy with Christmas things, its suddenly full steam ahead . . . . .not much time for blogging!

sunny shop shot

Found this old photo taken by Yee Ting in the shop last year, she takes a lovely photo!
The daylight is fading, its getting dark earlier & earlier & we will be into the winter months...then CHRISTMAS.
On the Wall Camilla Engman & Alexander Girard.

Happy customer

A very busy tuesday yesterday!
We sold Emily Warren's Bear Head, it was sad to see him go so soon.
Lucy, the customer was a good sport & modelled him before whisking him off to his new home!

OFFCUT art pieces

For the Design week show, OFFCUT Design have made 5 one-off art pieces, intricately made from inlaid formica, a snip at £95 each.

Offcut Design @ Shelf

 

Off to SHELF today to get ready for our forthcoming show by OFFCUT, which we are hosting during the London Design Festival

(actually from 18th - 26th Sept)

If you are in the area, do pop by on Tuesday when we will open until 9pm, as part of the Shoreditch Design Triangle.

Also, on Saturday 25th from 2pm, we & some of neighboring shops, including Ella Doran will be hosting shows and events for Design Week. 

AND we will be open extra days during the show- tues 21st, weds 22nd from 12-6pm.

Come and see!

Bumper stationery Pack
Crammed full with vintage finds each of these packs contain:

5 x 1LB Coffee Bags from Old Spitalfields Market
13 x Assorted Tickets
1 x Card of French Brown Darning Wool
1 x Tin of Lane's 'Big Ben' Bootpolish (original contents included, somewhat shrunken!)
2 x Broom Labels from The USA
2 x British Fizzy Pop Labels
5 x Finest Anchor Butter Papers from Lloyds Dairy, London, WC1
2 x Paper Bags from Shelf's own stock
1 x Pencil

Together with these non-vintage items:
Large Hungarian School jotter
10 x old fashioned wire and paper ties
a calico drawstring bag from San Francisco
1 x Shelf Sew-On Patch
and a tiny wooden, lucky black cat from Germany

You can buy one here 
or come to the shop....

Rob Ryan Tiles

Rob Ryans tiles are in stock again, a good selection in store, £30 each.

Trunk Records

Speaking of Trunk Records
We thought we'd give you a little tip.

Our favourite Trunk CD of the moment is 'Moondog and Suncat Suites' by Kenny Graham and his Satellites
"This album is extraordinary. It's where British jazz meets Moondog meets Joe Meek. Kenny Graham, one of the most forward thinking of all British jazz men, heard the street recordings of Moondog in 1956, made this album of cover versions mixed with his own impressions of new Moon cues. Haunting, mysterious, exotic, beguiling, and with a sensational jazz line up, all spaced out by the early engineering of Joe Meek. Mindblowing."

Jonny's son listens to it at bedtime & so do we.

Oh and of course we still love this

Offcut Design @ Shelf

A sneak peek from OFFCUT DESIGN H.Q.
Shelf are showing their new desk accesories and other new goodies during Design Week.
18th - 26th September.
More to follow soon!

Mr Fox

Mr. Fox can be seen looking out of our window.

He was made by the supremely talented illustrator Emily Warren.
Come visit him soon?

tales of a wedding

The lovely Artemis has blogged a lot about her and Nao's beautiful wedding on the Isle of Wight.
On our return to the mainland we sent a tiny gift, which Artemis then proceeded to blog about..
Its good to know how much she appreciated them and my type written butter paper!
We have some in our stationery gift packs in the shop, stuffed with vintage goodies.
You can also buy the enamelled letters in store or a few selected words online.
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