PLACES: MITTENS AND BLOSSOMS

THOUGH WE TEND TO AVOID PORTOBELLO RD ON SATURDAY LIKE A PLAGUE, (ITS BEEN DECLARED PURGATORY BY DOODLE DUE TO THE CROWDS)

BUT WE GOT A TELEGRAM FROM THE GYPSY AT THE ADMIRAL VERNON; HE CLAIMED HE HAD A SQUASH BLOSSOM TO SHOW US.

AS IN, SOME SERIOUS ANTIQUE INLAID TURQUOISE NECK CANDY.

SO WE SAUNTERED DOWN THE OLD RD AND FOUND HIM ON HIS LITTLE BOOTH:

WITH HIS SKULLS AND STUFF. AND AN EDWARDIAN ASYLUM SUIT, IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING WHAT THAT WAS. (THE NEW WEEKEND CASUAL?)

GYPSY WAS NOT LYING: HE MODELS THAT SQUASH BLOSSOM NECKLACE MILLICENT ROGERS STYLE. (IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS,  GO AND GOOGLE HER KEMOSABE; SHE PUT TURQUOISE ON THE MAP)

ABOVE, WHAT ARE THESE? WE WANT THEM ON OUR BODY.

WE'RE A LITTLE OUT OF FOCUS FOLKS, BUT THATS GYPSY VISION FOR YOU. BLURRED ON THE EDGES:

WEARING THE SWEETEST BUNNY FUR MITTENS, EVEN IN THE HEAT WE WERE ROMANCED, ZHIVAGO STYLE. COME THE COLD, BEADED BITS LIKE THESE WILL KEEP US WARM AT NIGHT, OF THIS WE ARE SURE.

IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF RICHIE TENENBAUM: FLY, MORDECAI! 
FOR SERIOUS: WHEN IN LONDON, FLY YOURSELF OVER AND UNDER THE ADMIRAL VERNON FOR SOME BEAUTIFUL GYPSY CURIOSITIES (AND TO TAKE IN SOME OF THOSE RAD TATTOOS).

WE LIVE HERE TOO AND WE LIKE IT: KATRINA PHILLIPS

ITS BEEN CALLED 'THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SHOP IN LONDON' AND ITS PRETTY EASY TO SEE WHY. WITH HER INCREDIBLE EYE FOR HUMBLE ANTIQUES AND SUBLIME OBJETS, BOTH NATURAL AND MADE, KATRINA'S SHOP IS AS ORGANIC AND ECLECTIC  AS THE CRYSTALS AND CANDLES WHICH SHE STOCKS. AND SO WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE ALIX OF BOHEMIA STOCKED HERE; NAMELY 

THE CAMELIA BLOUSE. 

A PEEK INSIDE MS. PHILLIPS WORLD:

ABOVE, THE MOST FABULOUS FLOOR, LAID BY KATRINA'S DAD IN THE 1960'S.

GIANT CLAMSHELL FOSSILS, MARBLE TRAYS AND BUDDHA, BELOW

GEORGIAN SOFAS, SHELL GARLANDS, A STATUE AND PAINTINGS BY PHILLIPE BONNET:

THE MOST DIVINE NUBIAN WHO ONCE HELD UP A LIGHT ON THE RIVER SEINE IN THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1855 IN PARIS:

THE  ALIX OF BOHEMIA CAMELIA BLOUSES HANG FROM A FANTASTICAL MIRROR:

KATRINA SAYS "THIS IS NOT A NORMAL SHOP YOU KNOW",

INDEED, ITS MUCH MUCH BETTER (AND SMELLS DELICIOUS).

COME AND SEE US AT 99 PORTOBELLO RD. KATRINA WILL AMUSE AND DELIGHT YOU; WE'VE DECIDED WE WOULD LIKE TO GET MARRIED TO HER IF IT MEANS WE CAN STAY. 

KATRINA'S WEBSITE AND INTERIORS: www.katrinaphillipsinteriors.com