Open right up until Christmas!
We are now open 11 until 4 EVERYDAY until Christmas! For gifts that are a little different and pieces to spruce up your home for the celebrations alike…
Shop by appointment…
UPDATE NOVEMBER 2020 We will be available for payment and collection of pre-ordered goods between 1pm and 3pm, Tuesday to Thursday, during this current lockdown period. Contact us beforehand with your order 07967 695741 thanks
Coronavirus Update
We’re all well aware of the current threat to Public Health and the drastic action required to ‘physically distance’ to slow down the spread of the virus. Here at ‘La Vie’ we believe that ‘Life has to go on’ – as much as it can! We realise we are a non-essential shop but want to give you the ongoing opportunity to still buy products we believe in, at minimal risk to exacerbating the ‘crisis’. We especially believe that, at this…
Home truths…
We are passionate about only selling products we really like and would use in our own home. One of our key product ranges, since 2011, is the wonderful Annie Sloan range of decorative paint products. A couple of years after stocking it we had the opportunity to completely renovate the 1970’s bungalow we’d chosen to move our growing family into. Being from a time of ‘modernist’ architectural style it needed some ‘homeliness’ and warmth putting into it. Key to this…
The changing face of retail: the end of consumerism, or the democratisation of capitalism?
2018 certainly appeared to be yet another brutal year on the high street with the felling of yet more seemingly untouchable ‘giants’. So is bricks and mortar retail finished? To answer this we need to analyse the ‘mechanics’ behind what is actually going on. All too often the ‘internet’ is now considered the ‘panacea’ for retailers. However, simply pitching bricks and mortar vs. ‘The Internet’ is grossly over-simplifying things to say the least! ‘Internet Shopping’ is reliant on super-efficient distribution…
Style with a conscience!
Building on our popular range of the truly unique, handmade & ethical ‘Verry Kerry’ Kimono Gowns we are pleased to be able to bring the amazing ‘One Hundred Stars’ range of cover-ups and scarves to Shrewsbury! Right ‘of the moment’ (the ‘Valerie’ is featured in the new ‘Mamma Mia’!) but with timeless style, these unique designs would make a great gift or treat for yourself alike! WE love them and think YOU will too!…
A Fresh New Look…
Over the next week we’ll be bringing in a new take on some former product lines and something completely new too! As well as honing down some of our older stock we hope this will all add up to a fresh new look! Exciting! Keep an eye on our ever-changing window display over this week!…
New studio complete!…
Almost one year after first starting work on demolishing our old garage and our home studio is finally complete! (Well, we have had a whole new shop to fit out in the meantime too!) It has been fully occupied by lamp-making activity over the past few weeks but we have already successfully held one of our popular ‘Annie Sloan’ workshops in it and it is proving the perfect space for all of these things! We very much look forward to…