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...Earnings across all stores grew 36 per cent in 2023, said the company....
...It still might be an easier task than selling trinkets on the internet....
...Every winter, the designer’s Manhattan store is filled with some 40,000 trinkets including glass baubles ($20 to $352) hand-blown in Poland....
...With its 75,000 stores, Yiwu has been nicknamed China’s trinket town, the centre of a multibillion-dollar trade in everything from Christmas decorations to toys and umbrellas to pencils....
...On the narrow streets around the central Manger Square, most of the shops selling Christian trinkets have been closed....
...It isn’t about going to the newest restaurants and stores, but the right ones.”...
...The workshop is littered with paintings, lithography stones, sculptures and prints, as well as antique furniture, trinkets and small printing presses....
...“That is the history of this country,” says Ignatieff of the stories chiselled in the swords, trophies and trinkets he repairs. “You’ve had those skills passed down to you....
...If you’re after trinkets with little monetary or practical value but oodles of charm, there’s one shop in particular that stands out....
...Chestnut dominates, occasionally interrupted by a glimpse of something else — a vase, lamp, trinket or, as on one surface, a heavy bread slicer like a tabletop scythe....
...Yiwu, “the world’s largest wholesale market for small manufactured goods”, was recently profiled by our colleagues on MainFT: With its 75,000 stores, Yiwu has been nicknamed China’s trinket town, the centre...
...In 2019 it opened the first Bode store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and this was followed in 2021 by a Bode coffee bar/tailor’s atelier and a 3,000 sq ft Los Angeles outpost on Melrose Avenue in 2022....
...That included “height marks notched on bedroom doors and threadbare childhood teddies, collid[ing] with trinkets from family holidays and doodles of future-bound affirmations”....
...Forman’s late father, Michael, was a prolific, single-minded collector, who spent decades amassing the single largest private store of Pierrepoint’s effects before his death in 2008....
...The ancient Egyptians understood the power and beauty of the box, making decorative containers to store perfumes and mirrors that formed an integral part of burial rites....
...The central bank, meanwhile, has brought in the army to store and guard some 40 per cent of kuna coins that it expects to be exchanged for euros....
...The sitting room of Moss’s home is elegantly lived-in; far from a show home with chopped cushions and artfully placed objets, it is dotted with personal knick-knacks, mystical trinkets, half-burned candles...
...Cave reprograms this popular racist trinket by surrounding it with objects and paintings....
...This, with decorating their homes with ivy and larger outdoor plants with trinkets, was among the more winsome traditions of Saturnalia, the wild, week-long festival during which people filled statues up...
...These are abundant in a country house laden with treasures from Parisian flea markets, sketches from artist friends and trinkets bathed in the romantic glow of postwar Europe and the jet age....
...There’s a votive store of strange little statues, a bar selling the waters of the Underworld and a substantial town square that feels vaguely familiar....
...Yet, after fixing its balance sheet three year ago, its core business of selling trinkets as well as ear piercing services to girls has demonstrated recent resilience....
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...Ryan opened this showroom in 2019 after a retail move away from London, where for 24 years she had been the proprietor of three antique stores and written four interiors books....
...I like the Songmics velvet hangers for their rose-gold swivel hooks (£23.99 for 30, songmics.co.uk) Store small things in small spaces Storing small garments or accessories in small spaces makes them easier...
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