I wanted to share a few winter and holiday decor images from my recent Thanksgiving trip “home” to London…
Knightsbridge:
This gorgeous entrance courtyard in Knightsbridge made me positively swoon! It takes serious gardening skills to keep flowers alive in London’s frosty winter weather. I should know – these potted topiaries with cyclamen inspired me to come home and spruce up my own pots…which didn’t survive last week’s freezing Seattle temperatures. Back to the nursery…
Regent Street/Oxford Circus:Liberty’s department store at 218 Regent Street has been around since 1875, making it one of the oldest shops in London. Known around the world for its stunning building reminiscent of a Elizabethan theatre, luxurious designer collections and interior design origins, I was dying to check out its Christmas decor and was not disappointed! A ceiling covered entirely with wrapping paper ribbons, tinsel streamers glistening all the way down from the 8th floor and flowers, flowers, flowers galore!
A visit to Luella Bartley’s Christmas Grotto immediately added an extra page to my Christmas wish list with so many irreverent and beautiful things it was tempting to ignore the exchange rate and max the credit cards http://www.liberty.co.uk/pws/images/services/projects/luella/luellaxmas.html
So if you happen to be in London at Christmas, I highly recommend a visit to the iconic store, camera at the ready, and if you feel like being really generous, dear husband, I’ll happily accept one of their “gift coins” commissioned exclusively by the Royal mint. http://www.liberty.co.uk/