When Kevin Zhang moved to Vancouver from England, he missed being able to shop at some of his favourite home décor shops. Thats why he decided to open Notting Hill SW1, a store that features various high-end products from the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Denmark, with Fiona and Yan. It carries furniture, home accessories, luxury toiletries and baby products, 90 per cent of which are exclusive to Notting Hill in Vancouver. Brands include Murchison-Hume, Natures Purest, Moulin Roty and Lene Bjerre, makers of this delightful frog lamp. The store is at 840 W. Hastings. Notting-Hill.ca
Company founder Jacqui MacNeill celebrated the opening of the ninth Escents Aromatherapy store in Metro Vancouver at the new 948 Robson location (the former Aveda store) last Thursday. MacNeill sources all-natural ingredients, such as peppermint and eucalyptus, for her line of skin, bath and home products. Customers can mix and match their lotions according to their tastes and needs, which can range from needing a scent to help them sleep, enhance their mood or help them stop snoring. Shes just expanded the mens line and her products are now offered to Air Canadas first-class passengers. EscentsAromatherapy.com
If your closets could use a little decluttering, writes Vancouver blogger Missy McIntosh, and you have any gently used coats, blankets, jeans, shoes, mitts, scarves or unused toiletries that you no longer need and want to give to a new home, please let us know. For the fourth year in a row, she and her friend Tacia Voicey are volunteering to collect donations for homeless youth and bring them to the Warm Clothing Drive for Convenant House. Theyll pick up your items right from your doorstep between now and Nov. 18 or you can drop them off at her office at Burrard and 7th. (Update: McIntosh's initiative is over for this year.)
Museum of Vancouver has partnered with businesses all over the city to create merchandise inspired by artifacts from the MOV collection, including Make, Vancouver Special, Walrus, Burritt Brothers Carpets, Country Furniture and Murchies. The MOV Retail Collection, which launches Nov. 7, includes area rugs, beer glasses, coasters, pillows, T-shirts and neon inspired key rings and will be sold at their partners locations.
