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The modern wedding list
Basic home essentials are out, hi-tech gadgets, home gyms and eco-paints are in. Find out why time-poor Londoners love wedding lists.Read more...
July 2008
The H&P 500 directory
Coming soon... the new H&P 500 directory featuring the finest homeware stores.Read more...
May 2008
Regent Street
With a world-famous sweeping Regency facade and flagship stores for prestige British brands, Regent Street is emerging again as a luxury shopping destination.Read more...
April 2008
Paper round
Selfridges has created this month's sensational windows around a theme of paper. They show how even the most basic material can be transformed into high design.Read more...
February 2008
Design House Stockholm
A cool new emporium of Scandinavian design has arrived in King's Road, SW3, just near Chelsea Town Hall.Read more...
December 2007
Winter sales
Bag a bargain in this year's sales. Here is a round-up of the capital's best.Read more...
December 2007
Brompton Design District
This is the new hip tag for South Kensington, which boasts a clutch of chic specialist home stores.Read more...
November 2007
Christmas shopping bonanza
The capital's West End is pulling in the crowds this Christmas with an illuminated shopping bonanza. Londoners and tourists alike can find 600 shops, 96 flagship stores and more than 200 bars and restaurants.Read more...
November 2007
Pimlico Road
Truly one of London's most fruitful 'design destinations', Pimlico Road is home to an amazing line-up of shops and services dedicated to beautiful interiors, and spilling over into surrounding streets.Read more...
August 2007
Do the oriental
Popular French interiors brand La Maison Coloniale has landed in London. Its aim is to adapt timeless and often exotic oriental design (from India, Tibet, Indonesia and China) to the needs of modern living.Read more...
July 2007
Be-palmed
Soane Britain in Pimlico has expanded into the shop next door and doubled the size of its lovely roof terrace, now fragrant with jasmine and fringed with palms. This shop is an ace find for decorating devotees.Read more...
June 2007
Can do
In the quiet streets of Soho (but less than five minutes' walk from the heaving hub of Piccadilly Circus) is Do, a sharp shop for modern design that opened earlier this year.Read more...
June 2007
Heaven for food lovers
Two new food stores have just opened in London. The good news is that Daylesford Organic is simply the chicest grocery store to have opened in the city yet. And The Natural Kitchen is a hybrid that brings in foods from many different companies.Read more...
June 2007
Habitat
There is a huge clearance store in Wythenshawe, Lancashire, where four deliveries a week make sure that stock is constantly replenished.Read more...
May 2007
OKA
This fast-expanding company has two clearance outlets, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire and Haslemere in Surrey. Each is filled with enticing stock, sold at up to 70 per cent off.Read more...
May 2007
Lombok
The London warehouse holds clearance sales every Saturday. Expect to find reductions of up to 70 per cent.Read more...
May 2007
Where the sales never stop
Take a look at one of the UK's clearance outlets, which sell discontinued and ex-display stock all year round at discounted prices.Read more...
May 2007
Flight of fancy
Over the past decade, the internet has completely transformed the way we shop. Here, we list a few of our favourite homeware shopping sites.Read more...
May 2007
All the fun of the fair
It is not just niche shops that stock fair-trade products. Now high-street stores are getting in on the act.Read more...
May 2007
Macho men go shopping, too
Martin Waller is the MD and design 'eye' of London's most masculine fabric-and-furniture store, Andrew Martin. Caroline Phillips finds out where he shopsRead more...
May 2007
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