The List #16
Lush editions of literary classics, kids slippers to melt your heart and lots of vintage finds for the kitchen
My first List of the year! Indie finds, vintage faves and one-woman businesses. This should have gone out on Friday but I still have Christmas brain and thought it published Tuesday. Hopefully she’s useful and pretty enough to make up for being late.
New favourite condi: Poon’s chilli vinegar dressing. It tastes sublime and the branding is insanely gift-worthy (look at this little pantry!). My husband’s hot sauce and hot-sauce-adjacent condiment collection is out of control: it currently occupies an entire shelf in the cupboard. I’m becoming faintly obsessed myself.
I discovered Chiltern Publishing in the Madhatter bookshop in Burford this weekend and thought their floral covers with gilt edges were so lush. Founded in 2018, Chiltern make “exquisitely crafted covers for classical editions”. A gorgeous gift for a host/ aesthete/ bookworm. And as ever, with painterly/arty re-editions, they look best in multiple.
Famous for being fought over on Dragon’s Den, Nursem hand cream (co-founded by a nurse, whose hands were so dry and cracked from washing them 50-60 times a day) really is as brilliant as the squillionaires thought it was. Gorgeous design (god I really am a sucker for branding), fair price point (just under a tenner for a tube) and working a wonder on my desiccated winter hands. The best bit? For every tube they sell, Nursem give a month’s work of products to an NHS nurse or midwife. Now that’s an elegant business model.
These handmade pictures by Rebby Rabbits are adorable and for something personalised, handmade and framed, they’re really fairly priced (they start at £50.) For a sentimental touch, you can provide your own material (from an old shirt or a bridesmaid dress perhaps) for the background.