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    General Items, a shoebox-sized homeware store in downtown Bengaluru

    Malini Malik and Spandana Gopal have turned a love of functional design into a bustling business in Ulsoor

    General Items on Gangadhar Chetty Road in Bengaluru
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
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    Formaje, the chicest cheese shop in the world

    Clara Diez is bringing localised, small-batch production to her elegant Madrid store

    Formaje co-founder Clara Diez
  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
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    How Mameg became Hollywood’s tastemaker

    The shop and gallery has become a destination for fashion, jewellery and art

  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
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    Get the rug bug: how Thames Carpets went viral

    Meet the father-daughter duo with designs from every corner of the world  

    Bahram Javadi-Babreh and his daughter Sophie at the Thames Carpets workshop in Wheatley
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Visual Arts
    Kiln, the Newcastle café where the tableware is on the menu too

    Come for the meze, leave with a mug

    Kiln’s resident potter Jun Rhee
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
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    Why Riley’s Fish Shop is catch of the day

    The Tynemouth restaurant and fishmonger has come a long way from its beach-shack beginnings

    The fish counter and fridge at Riley’s Fish Shop in Tynemouth
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    HTSIThe best men’s shirts, shoes – and capes – for summer 2025
    Capas Seseña: the shop where Jeff Bezos buys his capes

    The Madrid boutique has been robing leaders and legends for more than a century 

    The shopfront on Calle de la Cruz
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
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    Prada Marfa is 20. It’s never gone out of fashion

    Artists Elmgreen & Dragset reflect on the success and symbolism of their Texan “designer store”

    Prada Marfa in Valentine, Texas
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
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    Les Merveilles de Babellou is a trove of preloved French fashion

    Les Merveilles de Babellou in Paris’s Puces de Saint-Ouen
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
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    The ultimate Muji experience – across seven floors

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    Muji’s flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Shopping and gifts
    At Messermacher, knife-making is an art

    This Salzburg atelier can forge you a bejewelled dagger or a simple kitchen parer 

    Messermacher Artis Full Integral knife, €11,400
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Interiors
    Inside Basa, the LA florist making bouquets for the stars

    Find out why Phoebe Philo, Troye Sivan and Kim Kardashian go wild for Alice Lam’s arrangements

    Alice Lam in her Basa flower studio in Los Angeles
  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
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    Venice’s velvet-slipper mecca 

    Piedàterre Venezia has a mouthwatering trove of shoes for every occasion

    Shelves full of slippers inside Piedàterre in Venice
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Food & Drink
    EAT has been a New York institution for 50 years. It only gets more delicious

    Eli Zabar’s ‘appetising store’ serves stars and citizens alike. Just don’t call it a deli

    Eli Zabar in the doorway at EAT on Madison Avenue, New York
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Design
    50 years of Vanderhurd design: from bohemia to Baudelaire

    The west London studio’s design expertise spans wallpapers, carpets and rugs

    Vanderhurd founder Christine Van Der Hurd in the Vanderhurd studio and textile atelier on Portobello Road
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    Shopping and gifts
    The chicest foreign exchange in London (will also serve you a latte)

    Foreign Exchange News in Paddington describes itself as ‘Palm Beach meets Naples’

    The café space in front of the bureau de change at Foreign Exchange News
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
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    Mystery Pier Books – where Hollywood gets its literary fix

    Guillermo Del Toro, Ben Affleck, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, even the Pope come here for rare first editions

    Harvey Jason and his son Louis, outside Mystery Pier Books
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    HTSIHTSI picks the best shops for gentlemen
    Where does President Macron get his ties?

    Cinabre in Paris has a feast of clothing and accessories available, and not just in the president’s favoured navy-blue

    Ties, bow ties and shirts, from €75
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI’s favourite shops in the world
    Why the fashion world is Jogging to Marseille

    The French concept store that’s leading the pack

    The store’s restaurant space
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
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    An Adirondack institution for adventurers

    The Mountaineer has all the kit you need before heading off into the wilderness

    Store owner Charlie Wise
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI’s favourite shops in the world
    The store kitting out Kenyan champions-in-the-making

    Distance provides Iten’s thriving running community with trainers, clothes and inspiration

    The exterior of Distance in Iten, Kenya
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI’s favourite shops in the world
    Why is there a fashion boutique on the Tibetan Plateau?

    It’s a trek to get to Norlha’s flagship store – but its yak down collections are worth it

    The Norlha atelier in Ritoma, on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI’s favourite shops in the world
    An insider’s spot for rare books in Mexico City

    Casa Bosques in the Roma Norte neighbourhood offers art books, chocolate and a place to stay

    Casa Bosques in Mexico City’s Roma Norte neighbourhood
  • Sunday, 12 May, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI’s favourite shops in the world
    Hak Dei – a Hong Kong haven of nostalgic homeware

    The Kowloon shop selling pieces of the past

    Chau Chi Pang, owner of Hak Dei
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    HTSIThe Kudos Project
    Style & Groom, the London barbershop causing a buzz

    The Kentish Town salon offers precision fades – and motivational direction 

    Thomas “T Styles” Yeboah, barber, stylist and founder of Style & Groom, working in his salon
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