Shopping, Issue 679
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Neighbourhood Watch: Partick, Glasgow
13 Apr 2011
A guide to your local neighbourhoods
Partick, Glasgow What’s it like? The bit of the salubrious West End that still feels properly Glaswegian: cool café bars, delis and boutiques sitting tooth by rough-shaven jowl with classic boozers, betting shops, greasy spoons and pound…
Independent shopping guide: Clothes
28 Mar 2011
The best boutique and vintage clothes shops in Glasgow and Edinburgh
We like ‘the little guy’ here at The List. Those mavericks sticking it to the man, opening up small businesses according to their own rules, and finding clever, creative ways to stay trading in the midst of the recession (and that’s the last time we’ll…
Independent shopping guide: Books
28 Mar 2011
Analogue, The Fruitmarket Gallery and Monorail are among our favourite hangouts
Some of our best and most enjoyable timewasting has been done in the independent bookshops and record stores of Edinburgh and Glasgow. So – apologies go out to the recently relocated, ever excellent Analogue Books with its unique collection of locally…
Five of the best: Places for furniture
28 Mar 2011
Featuring Trash Furnishing, Moleta Munro, Bra Bohag, Funked Up Junk and Fun Makes Good
Trash Furnishing carolinekey.co.uk Caroline Key (who gave us a hand with this article on homeware-buying) artfully restores vintage classics such as schoolroom chairs, writing desks and mirrors, adding modern motifs and the occasional splash of…
Independent shopping guide: Homewares
24 Mar 2011
Some of the best physical and online retailers of sleek home furnishings
There comes a time in everyone’s life when a beer-stained two-seater, originally peach, now covered with a previously-cheerful ethnic throw, ceases to be a bold anti-materialistic statement and becomes an embarrassment. Ditto those beige tiles with the…
Independent shopping guide: Julie Nicoll, owner of Analogue Books
24 Mar 2011
Newly-relocated indie publications shop
Before we opened, we found it hard to get hold of many of the books and magazines that we were into and felt if we were into this stuff, surely others would be too and decided to just take the risk and open. We have all kinds of customers; art students…
Independent shopping guide: Brian Proudfoot, director of GOODD
24 Mar 2011
Hard-to-find designer homewares and artist exhibition space
The kind of design we like and are passionate about wasn’t available in Glasgow. The shop was initially thought of as the ideal vehicle to engage local people with the story of design and hopefully illuminate the wider design process. We offer a…
Independent shopping guide: Fashion designer Jenny Sweetnam of Technicolour
24 Mar 2011
Featured designers include Jo Richardson, Magda Boreysza and more
After a few weeks of DIY craziness, we opened up before Christmas. We stock bold, contemporary design with a graphic edge. I make jewellery and garments, and design colourful and geometric shapes that sit playfully on the body. I think of both clothing…
Five of the best: Independent record shops in Glasgow and Edinburgh
24 Mar 2011
Monorail, Avalanche, Elvis Shakespeare, Rubadub, LOVEMusic
Monorail 12 Kings Court, Glasgow, 0141 552 9458, www.monorailmusic.com Pick through lovingly stocked, carefully edited alterna-indie vinyl in this musical cubby hole (many would say Scotland’s finest record shop) started by Stephen Pastel (of The…
Five of the best: Vintage clothes shops in Scotland
24 Mar 2011
Vintage Guru, Starry Starry Night, Barnardos Vintage, Herman Brown
Vintage Guru 195 Byres Road, Glasgow, 0141 339 4750, www.vintageguru.co.uk Existing as a web distributor for 15 years, Vintage Guru is now 3D, catering for the ladies and oft-neglected retro-hungry gents. Past List favourite finds include a white and…
