Beautiful books, snaffable cocktails and fine fodder aren’t a common combination but if you head down to Maison Assouline you’ll find all three luring you into a dreamy haze. The unassuming bookstore is located on Piccadilly and if you haven’t been in, I highly encourage you to. The store-cum-bar is housed within an old bank - designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1922 - and it boasts an array of period features, from dark wood panelled walls to sky-high ceilings and intricate cornicing work. The place is stacked with the dreamiest of books from Maison Assouline with subject categories to suite ...
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If you haven't been already, venture over to the Vaults at Waterloo to check out Goosebumps Alive before it closes its doors. Set under the dank railway arches, the 90 minute-long production transports spectators through a labyrinth of tunnels with blood-curdling scenes as they go. Fans of the children's horror fiction books by American author RL Stein, will recognise scenes from gruesome tales such as Say Cheese, And Die, Stay Out Of The Basement, One Day In Horrorland and Night Of The Living Dummy. Getting a little Dutch courage, we started our adventure at the Goosebumps bar, where...
Read more →Fashion Historian Amber Butchart has just released her second book Nautical Chic. In this much-awaited pictorial book, Amber explores Nautical style in all it’s glory, with a range of stunning pictures to illustrate one of our most enduring trends, over the extensive period of two decades.
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