If you're out and about in East London this weekend...
Yesterday afternoon for school, I went on a walk around Spitalfields with my class, and we got to stick our heads into the Georgian house where this pop-up shop is appearing. I didn't want to leave. It was a beautiful house, beautifully restored and, for this occasion, filled with beautiful, beautiful objects and art which you could walk out with (after handing over some money, of course).
At the moment we walked in, there was a buzz of people as they finished up preparations for the private opening that evening. The wine glasses were out, there were pretty girls fluttering about making finishing touches, and older architectural historian gentleman-types dressed in tweed were lighting candles in chandeliers. My heaven, in other words! (Apart from the lack of pretty young men in tweed, of course.) I should have jumped into a cupboard and waited to gatecrash the party but instead, I'll just have to head back on the weekend when the shop is open to the public for those two days.
It's well worth a look if you can make it, especially with Christmas around the corner. Also on in the area over the weekend are the East London Design Show at Shoreditch Town Hall (Saturday and Sunday), Judy's Affordable Vintage Fair at Old Spitalfields Market (Saturday only) and the Vintage Furniture Flea at York Hall in Bethnal Green (Sunday only). Whew!
They were "lighting candles in chandeliers"! How wonderful! That on its own would have been enough for me. I could have gone home very happy. Or sad that we no longer have such things.
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