Hints and tips:
...Many of these objets, engraved with leaf and flower motifs, were in fact rare 1930s pieces by Line Vautrin, the prolific 20th-century French jewellery designer and artist famed for her hand-wrought bijoux...
...“During the pandemic, we went from about 450 stores to 15,000, as every sales assistant became a store manager,” he says, referring to the use of social media or the telephone to communicate with and sell...
...The thing that’s hard is to create a system that knows what you store and which can bring it down when you need it.” So far, only a handful of working Bumblebee apartments exist....
...Shrimps: the Antonia “The Antonia bag is my number one bestseller,” says Hannah Weiland of the cult, beaded carrier she compares to a bijoux jewellery box. “It’s on near constant re-order.”...
...the jewellery box, helping to store your most precious products....
...After falling out of fashion for decades, brooches are popping up in collections ranging from those by bijoux makers such as Amrapali to fine-jewellery heavyweights such as Graff and Cartier....
...Beyond the regular costs of feeding a pet are the unexpected veterinary bills and – for those so inclined – bijoux accessories and doggy spa days....
...Liberty was one of the first stores in London to carry the striking designs of Antwerp-based jeweller Ek Thongprasert....
...Take his “Lady with Fan”, a portrait of Baudelaire’s muse Jeanne Duval in 1962, blind and mad with syphilis but still wearing the bangles and beads immortalised by the poet in “Les Bijoux”....
...Cookware and books Laguiole makes a selection of steak knives, butter knives and box sets available online and in leading homeware stores (www.laguiole.eu; EU only)....
...An official walking map is now in member stores and collective-sponsored shopping “afternoons” are held regularly. Such promotions have been successful, says Barak....
International Edition