Shop at the Museum: The Well-Edited V&A
The newly stocked and themed shop at London's Victoria and Albert Museum has a wide variety of items that are inexpensive, light in tone and weight as well as, well, just fun. We bought small items for almost every member of the family at this shop recently when on a visit.
Take, for instance, the paper hat selection. Priced at two pounds fifty (consult a currency website for current dollar conversions such as XE, there's a choice of a top hat, summer flowers or harlequin selections. Choosing from the jewelry items available (735), is an enjoyable task, such as the rose stud earrings and textile jewelry inspired by flowers and fruit seen in medieval samplers and cross stitch designs or a 1940s Arts and Craft brooch.
For children consider the Design Your Own Paper Fans kit, a Medieval and Renaissance Chess Set, Knight Dragon Puzzle or personalize two baby bibs with an embroidery kit.
The homeware section has some items impractical to have sent abroad such as the Voysey deck chair, taken from a design for a wallpaper showing flowers birds and foliage by C.F.A.Voysey (1857-1941), ink and watercolour, about 1900.We also purchased the newest V&A Diary 2010, a small datebook and calendar that celebrates dress - from the bright silks of the Maharajas to the intricately patterned Japanese kimono. The diary fits the petite desk, a follow to the Jewels & Jewellery version we found online last year for 2009. The stationery and desktop section is well worth a look.
There's a statement about packing, postage and custom duties, too, at the site: Overseas Deliveries - Overseas orders will be sent by air. The cost for despatching goods overseas is £14.95 for orders up to the value of £100, with further increases as set out in a table at the site. The appropriate charge will automatically be added to your order at Check Out when you confirm your delivery address. There may be local duty and/or taxes payable on goods delivered outside the UK. V&A Enterprises is not responsible for paying these charges.
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