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14 November 2006

Liberty's winter windows

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In London, Liberty & Co.'s window has the winter blues...

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...and holiday reds. Note the leather handbags and hand luggage featuring the famous Liberty Art Nouveau design.

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Leather journals are stacked high on a three-legged stool, along with a sleek wooden Art Deco-era panther.

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A 19th-century concave mirror and Japanese art decorates the wall above a burled wood demi-lune table. Arts and Crafts vessels and vases, a Liberty scarf and 1930s Art Deco cocktail shaker and glasses, as well as modern art glass pieces complete the vignette.

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An old etched-mirror clock and 19th-century Japanese art flank a winter display window at Liberty of London.

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Behind this frosted glass and gilt hanging lantern, large broken pieces of a mercury glass mirror - probably circa 1830s - lean against the wall, while a red leather handbag dangles from a tree branch.

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Noooooo, I'm shielding my eyes! Make it go away!!! hehe

Oh, it's all so beautiful! It makes me want snow AND antiques! We so don't have anything like that over here!

Window dressers truly can create magic as seen with these window displays..my fav. the leaning tower of journals!Thank You for sharing your window shopping! :)

These photos are very nostalgic for me. Many items my aunt owned. She decorated with loads of red and decorated with that type of furniture... evoked some lovely memories thanks

How lovely! The colours are delicious! THank you so much for sharing!!!

Marvelous, festive windows! I love the leaning tower of journals, and all the red.
Such fun...

oh they are breathtaking. My dream is to have a white Christmas oneday and it won't happen down here in the dry continent we call Australia. There is something quite not right about Christmas in summer. We have our windows decorated in the city but nothing as magickal as this.

I too would like to go lêche vitrines with you!

I love Liberty's especially the Tudor House section...It always set me in the mood for spending lots and lots of money. The last time I was at Liberty's I bought scarves, pearls and leather bound books...All of them, I don't need.

heh.

Liberty's Xmas window dressing is always very interesting! Did you check out Selfridges'?

Nxxx

These pictures make me want to go to London just for the window shopping.

Thank you for sharing this Tara, I always thought it would be a fabulous job to be a window dresser. It's all quite unique and something you could stand looking at for some time just to take it all in.
XOXO

These photos have a Narnia like quality, now we know where the White Witch shops. I feel a trip from the burbs (Mill Hill) into Central London coming on.

Wow Tara...fabulous window dressings....the stacked journals and the headlights...very unique. I've missed your blog for a bit and just love all of your recent posts....as always beautiful words and art.

oooh--now i would LOVE to go shopping with you there, tara. i makes me wish i was still decorating at my family's flowershop in small town northern minnesota. i think glittered, red painted deer antlers would be a hit! that store does GREAT displays!

Fabulous windows! I'd love to have one of those concave mirrors, so delicious.

Oh how I *love* window shopping with you Tara!! These displays are quite divine!

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