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Perth Shopping - Shop
SHOP is your guide to boutique fashion and retail in Perth, featuring pop-up shops and other places that are so hard to find that Google doesn't even know about them yet. SHOP attempts to open your minds, hearts and wallets to the plethora of things that you can probably live without but in actuality don't want to. Clothes, jewellery, books, bikes, bags, shoes, bags that look like shoes - SHOP gives new meaning to the superficial - wait, we're confused.
Popsicle pop-up shop
Say the word 'popsicle' and suddenly I'm back in the summer of '94, babysitting my two kid sisters: think 40 degree day in the Perth hills, small children in stroller with messy, sticky, hyper coloured sugar-based ice treat covering their faces, fingers, and a 12-year-old David attempting to control the situation without tears.
Antenne Books
When trawling through the nets looking for sites to buy cool art magazines to strategically place on your coffee table, it's way too damn often that independent publishers' websites are arty to the point of obscurity - most of the time you can't tell what's inside any of those magazines until you get them.
Studiomama
When you move house and are without the thing that they call 'furniture', there are only so many neighbourly garage sales and flea markets that you can ransack before you start to want your Sunday sleep-ins back.
Forget the old poor artist mantra: 'bricks + planks = pretty good shelves'. Studiomama has designed some easy-how PDFs which tell you how to turn packing crates into a chair, stool, table.
Beat Route Records
Remember Blowfly Records? The same store run by this guy, Maurice, who may or may not have been into Rockabilly. It's the one where old-looking dudes hung around like, well, flies and sparred in obscure music trivia. There was The Scientists drum skin on the wall and second hand record collection rivaling that of Championship Vinyl.
It's More Than A Sip
The other day, while on my way home in a bad mood and caffeine slump, I found myself in It's More Than A Sip and was asked by a girl sitting at a table to have some tea with her. The store is not only a teahouse, but also a gallery for tea related art!
I skipped out with a selection of teas, glass teapot, with its own leaf holder in the belly made out of glass, that sits on a glass platform with a candle inside to keep the brew hot.
Un1son Apparel
Sneaker addiction is a cruel, cruel disease. While I may not have the obvious symptoms displayed by a few of my friends, I still get a rush from the sight of a well-stocked display shelf, and cop a high off that new-rubber smell.
Un1son Apparel is like a shooting gallery for shoe junkies, stocking the usual suspects (Nike, Vans, Reebok), plus some more adventurous labels, such as Pointer and Generic Surplus.
Mr Sparrow online shop
There's no denying that Subiaco shop Mr Sparrow isn't a product nut's dream - it's a carefully curated collection of amazing local and imported pieces presented creatively within what is a very tiny space. But it's the stories behind Mr Sparrow, told eloquently and warmly by shop owner, Perth girl Anna Macoboy, in her blog, that make its objects so appealing.
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