When we lived in England during college, our favorite store was Habitat. (We still have the catalog from autumn of 1998 that we picked up in a London store!) Gregory from ATLA even posted Habitat's Akiko Pendant Chandelier earlier this week. While we can't shop or think about paying for things in £, the British website is still fun to peruse. We've chosen some of our favorite vignettes and posted them after the jump...
"While we can't shop or think about paying for things in £ ..."
The exchange rate is pretty simple: 1USD : 2BPS. Unless you meant that you can't fathom how strong the British Pound is relative to the declining-in-value US Dollar, in which case no one, not even the Fed, can solve that problem.
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I remember Conran's in Philadelphia when I was in high school/college. I loved that shop so much...but I just visited Conran's Habitat in Marseille and was just plain old disappointed. There were some singularly cool items, but I left underwhelmed.
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davidasposted: I meant it in the second, declining-value-of-the-dollar way.
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Umm..it's actually 1GBP=$2, not the other way round. I WISH it were the other way round. Sigh.
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truckeekid, I loved that store, too. I was distraught when I found they closed it.
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I worship Terence Conran.
Tom Dixon not far behind...
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Got me on that one, Talloush. I'd be heading to London right now were that the case.
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