Heals offers contemporary styling and reasonable prices for every room in your house, from major furniture items such as beds and sofas right through to lighting, small accessories, bed linen, towels and toiletries. Click through to their clear website and pay a visit to the room of your choice or check out their garden furniture and accessories and storage solutions. They also have a wedding list service, interior design, kitchen planning and much more.
Based on the famous US furniture and accessories retailer Pier One Imports everything here is attractive and well priced and you'll find lovely gifts and accessories here from all over the World. The range is extensive, you could furnish an entire room in your house with their stylish, modern and traditional furniture or just choose from their wide selection of textiles, glassware and lighting. They're excellent for presents and bring out a special catalogue each Christmas to complement the website.
Vanessa Arbuthnot offers really pretty traditional fabrics inspired by Italy and rural English landscapes with names such as Stripe and Wiggle, Cockerel and Spot and Fern and Dragonfly. In tune with these there's also some lovely pottery which you have to order by phone. If you live in the country and like mixing and matching simple attractive designs you may well find something here.
Muji's products, whether for your home, office, school or travelling are always very well priced. That's not to say that you couldn't find the same goods at the same kind of price elsewhere, but when you couple what else Muji has to offer; chic, minimal styling, functional design and a wealth of ideas with it's excellent value this is a really good place to shop. Delivery is reasonable and you can order their furniture now if you live within the M25.
Zara is one of those stores that seems to have become and essential shopping destination within an amazingly short space of time. It's chic and well priced and effortlessly offers things that bring your wardrobe right up to date. They haven't yet put their clothing range online, but here is Zara Home (which surely has to be the first step), and where you can find gorgeous bedlinen, blankets and throws, towels and bath and body products plus accessories and furniture for most of the rooms in your house. Take a look round now.
This is a brand new, beautifully designed online home store, offering a superb range of designer home furnishings and accessories by names such as Descamps, Lulu Guinness, Jasper Conran, Versace and Vera Wang. If that makes it sound more like a fashion boutique than a home store I can assure you that it isn’t and you’ll find Designers Guild, Eva Solo and Coalport here as well. Dot Maison is also particularly good for home fragrance, with the collections of Lothantique and Millefiori Milano available too.
This is a lovely, clearly designed, online interiors store offering a very good range for the home, from luxury bath towels and cutlery canteens to throws, cushions, fine china and candle holders. Particularly good is their selection of crystal and silver. There are hand cut, silver inset champagne flutes, tassled silver paperknives, Riedel ringed decanters and silver tumble cups with gilded interiors. They offer engraving, gift wrapping, express delivery within the UK and EU delivery.
This home accessory and gift store is not just a great place to shop from, it's also a gorgeous place to browse. The design has been beautifully thought out to make the site easy to navigate, the photographs are extremely clear and the product range is reasonably priced and very hard to resist. Buy here for wedding gifts and for your own home too. It's hard to escape without being tempted.
This is a relatively new, very prettily designed website offering handcrafted and unusual products from France, such as Durance toiletries from Provence, traditional bathroom accessories, colourful tableware and table linens, hand made quilts and cushion covers and a small range of gift ideas. There's also a collection of furniture for bedroom and garden.
Dibor is an independent UK based company offering French style furniture, home accessories and gifts for every room including kitchen, dining, bed, bath, living and garden. There are also some very pretty ideas for children and a special Christmas department in season. The website is very easy to navigate and an extremely attractive place to browse, particularly as you’ll find ideas here that aren’t available anywhere else. If you’re buying a gift you can even choose the wrapping paper you want them to use.
The Bodie and Fou collection of European designer home accessories includes stylish, unique interior decor, kitchenware, lighting, babywear and gifts plus chic French homewares, luxurious bodycare and scented candles from Cote Bastide, Normann Copenhagen, Kathleen Hills, Flavia del Pra, MisseMai, Ole Jensen, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Oromono, Menu and many more.
Danish jewellery and silversmith Georg Jensen has always stood for a refined, timeless and elegantly simple design. He is considered to be one of the most influential silversmiths of the past century and part of the collection of jewellery, cutlery, home accessories and gifts (such as candlesticks and barware) can be ordered online.
This is a France based retailer offering you all those home accessories you saw on your last trip but weren't able to sneak into your suitcase. Gorgeous and colourful table linen from Les Olivades and Jaquard Francais (and lots more), quilted cushions by Souleido and toiletries and home fragrance by Manuel Canovas and Jardin Secret. There's also a fantastic range of bed linen by designers such as Descamps and colourful beach towels as well.
You’ll find some quite different products on this website, such as the ZapCap bottle opener, Escali Cibo nutritional scale and CaddyO bottle chiller alongside their designer kitchen and tableware with collections from Eva Solo, Cuisinox Elysee, Le Creuset, Mauviel, Couzon and Jura. This is not the normal kitchen and cookware selection so have a look round, you're certain to find something very different and some great gifts for the enthusiastic cook.
Everything from France, from tableware, linen and cutlery to toiletries by Christian Lenart and Savon de Marseilles and elegant Anduze garden pots. Also a selection of pretty bedlinen in traditional French designs such as Toile de Jouy, Fleurs de Champs and Monogram. The descriptions and information about every item are clear and well written and everything is beautifully photographed. This website only delivers to the UK other than by special arrangement.
This is a long established retailer of home and lifestyle products including candles, tableware, silk cushions, pretty etched glasses and duvet covers and quilts. They're quite hard to really categorise as the products are so wide spread but if I tell you that some of their bestsellers are bevelled mirrors, Chinese lanterns, lavender scented hears and Penguin (as in the book) mugs you’ll probably get the idea. You’ll definitely find some lovely gifts and ideas for brightening up your home here.
FineTable offer a unique selection of linen and design-led dining accessories from across Europe from companies large and small, including unusual candles and candlesticks (with names such as single tangle and ‘tangelarbra’), Volga table linen, Carrol Boyes cheese knives and Julien Macdonald glass. A wide range of festive decorations for the tree and table are available all year round with collectable pieces from Gisela Graham which you can order in advance if they're not yet in stock.
From bowls and vases, to ice buckets, decanters, jugs and glassware Dartington have created the modern options to match contemporary design in your home or to make excellent gifts (particularly for wedding presents). The prices are reasonable and you can be certain that anything you order will be very well made. They’ll deliver to you anywhere in the World (7 – 14 days for overseas) and faster within the UK.
Emma Bridgewater is very well known for her high quality pottery and clever and attractive designs, such as Polka Dots, Hugs and Kisses and Hearts as well as her mug collections including dogs, cats, birds and flowers. Every season she’s bringing out new products, such as cutlery, glass, preserves and teas, all with her signature script. Almost every kitchen has one or two pieces of her pottery, the only question is, can you resist the urge to collect? Difficult.
This is interior designer Joanna Woods’ selection of gifts and accessories for the home and it is a lovely, cleverly chosen collection including bronze candlesticks, Rigaud scented candles, silver pens and bronze detailed crystal boxes plus gorgeous hand embroidered cushions, boxed Haut Couture tableware and Villandry china in the homewares section. Delivery is usually within 3 – 5 days and if you need an express service just call them. They’ll also gift wrap for you.
Small Island Trader is an excellent company offering not only china and glass from a wide range of designers and manufacturers but also an excellent selection of kitchen equipment from juicers and steamers to copper and Le Creuset pots and pans, Sabatier knives, baking trays and the Eva Solo range of kitchen and living products. Needless to say they can't carry everything they offer in stock and delivery time is very much dependent on what you order. Allow at least 28 days.
You've probably already heard of this marvelous colourful, fun and innovative kitchen collection. There's a huge range on offer, regularly updated, with something for just about every occasion and every room in the house. You’ll find every kind of kitchen utensil plus boards and storage solutions, foils, cleaning products and waste bags and a whole host of other useful, and original products. There are lots of ideas for eating outside and picnics as well, plus foodie gifts at Christmas. Have a browse!
You can always be certain of finding just about everything here for the kitchen, from simple elegant cutlery and crockery, glasswear and general kitchen equipment to that cappucino maker you've always wanted. You can also be sure that (barring disasters) it'll be delivered when promised and the price will be good.
Heals, famous for its store in Tottencourt, is well known for its contemporary designs. On their website you'll find a wide selection of ideas for the kitchen, including small appliances, kitchen tools and gadgets, knives, untensils and storage, plus unusual and well priced tablewear and glass. Some excellent gift ideas here as well. They only dispatch to the UK and you normally have to wait between one to two weeks for your order to arrive dependant on availability.
David Mellor, Royal Designer for Industry, has an international reputation as designer, manufacturer and shopkeeper. Born in Sheffield, he has always specialised in metalwork and has often been described as 'the cutlery king'. On his website you'll find a selection of his modern stainless steel cutlery, plus contemporary high quality glass and tableware, kitchen tools and equipment. They're happy to ship to you anywhere in the World and offer express delivery and a gift wrap service.
Here’s another excellent retailer offering everything for the kitchen beautifully displayed, including knives, pots and pans, bar tools, glasses and serving dishes, picnic equipment, housekeeping items and a gift selection. You’ll also find a small but very high quality range of electrical appliances, with Dualit toasters and kettles and KitchenAid mixers just a couple of the items you can order to be shipped to anywhere in the world.
A vast selection of products is available on the attractively designed site which promises to dispatch just about all of its products to you anywhere in the World. Coffee makers, butchers blocks, knives, recipe books, saucepans and basic kitchenware are just a few of the items available. In their country kitchen department you’ll find old fashioned enamelware, farmhouse crockery and traditional style kettles to sit on your Aga.
This famous London based cookery equipment site offers over 5000 items from hand painted tablewear including decorated and coloured pottery from France, a really comprehensive range of kitchen essentials including knives, boards and bakeware plus Italian products (parmesan graters and ravioli trays) copper bowls and pans, children's baking sets, wedding gift service, knife sharpening and copper retinning. This has always been and still remains one of the best kitchen and dining shops around.
Here you'll find really pretty and not overpriced hand painted pottery from the Scottish Highlands, depicting fishing and Scottish scenery. You can find some lovely gifts here of put together a complete dinner service and you can be sure that what you buy is very special and different.
If you're a fan of the richly coloured table linen of Provence then this is the place from where you can add to your collection of tablecloths, napkins, lavender bags and 'les oliviers' pottery. Quite a complicated site to get round and you have to select the 'English version' if you can't read the French. You also need to select the colourway in the comments section when placing the order. However, a lovely choice of colours and styles.
Lavender & Sage was founded by Mayke Hogestijn, an interior designer who has worked in both England and France and who has sourced a large range of beautiful and traditional hand-made home accessories. Browse through this beautifully designed website to find items such as high quality soft furnishings and lighting, French tableware, kitchenware and furniture, as well as traditional bed and bath linens. They also offer Lavender & Sage's own line of 100% natural hand-made French recipe soaps. Just about everything here would make a lovely addition to your home.
With stores in London and New York, Marson and Langinger had the enviable reputation as the market leader in the manufacture of custom-made timber-and-glass conservatories, poolhouses and garden rooms. On their attractive website you can order from their range of furniture, lighting, garden tools, accessories, textiles, and Marston & Langinger's own-label domestic paint. Make sure you've plenty of time before you stop off here, there's a great deal of this beautiful collection to browse through.