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While the chains standardised their glass and the department stores shut their doors, a stubborn trade kept going: the window dresser, working by hand, one small stage at a time. A look at the history, the economics and the quiet pull of a window that someone actually thought about.
In a handful of high-street shops, drawers of mismatched buttons and forgotten trims are doing quiet duty as design archives. We meet the keepers of Britain’s remaining haberdasheries — and the makers, menders and stylists treating them as treasure.
Forget the gavel-wielding theatre of London’s big salerooms. In village halls and industrial estates, Britain’s tiny auction houses are still selling box lots for the price of a sandwich — and young collectors are learning to look closer. A field guide to bidding, etiquette and the peculiar joy of the £5 find.
A new wave of British jewellers is taking freshwater pearls out of the safety deposit box and into everyday rotation. We meet three makers using baroque shapes, recycled silver and transparent pricing to create pieces worth keeping — and wearing now.