These days, the idea of a bricks and mortar business seems alien to many. Why have a shop when you can so easily run a smart website and keep your stock in a faceless and efficient warehouse? Naturally, many businesses have gone this way in order to balance a profitable enterprise with the changing way we shop.
Not so Pipeche at Jutson, Clare Bennett's gloriously physical antiques business in Sandwich, Kent. The shop's curious name commemorates the building's former occupants, DJ Jutson (a jewellers founded in 1920) while also referencing a much-loved enamel street sign - Rue de Pipêche - that hangs on a wall. As all of the original fittings, including the huge jewellery safes, windows and shop sign, were still in situ when Clare took over, it made complete sense to tie her antiques business to the history and the character of the old Jutson premises. The two enterprises so clearly complemented one another, while also reflecting Clare's personal style.
In a way, Pipeche is a shop frozen in time: part of a historic streetscape, with a workshop at the back like a scene from an HG Wells novel and on cold days a fire burns in the grate. But it's not a museum, Clare is keen to point out; it's a business and a home.
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Collecting Dioramas MINIATURE WORLDS
From elaborate taxidermy museum displays to humble folk art creations, a diorama can transport us to another time and place
Pride of place LEEDS CREAMWARE
In its heyday the pre-eminent rival to Wedgwood's Queens ware, Leeds creamware is still much revered by collectors for its understated elegance
Bohemian Rhapsody
An exuberant approach to decor, with rooms enveloped in colour and pattern, has brought this historic home merrily into the 21st century...
THE ANTIQUES THAT SHAPED ME Rory Hutton
The accessories designer on his love of silver spoons and Sévres porcelain
European HERITAGE B&Bs
Is there anything more inspiring than staying somewhere that's both beautifully stylish and imbued with history? Rhiannon Batten explores five gems across Europe, from Sweden to Spain...
STAR SALES
A Hitchens painting, a museum-quality teapot and a Parisian chocolate box are all top of the lots
Textile designs by artists
Influential 20th-century fine artists and sculptors, from Picasso to Barbara Hepworth, gained additional status as textile designers until decline set in during the 1970s
Period DRAMA
A painstaking renovation has brought this 1725 former Huguenot silk weaver's house in London's Spitalfields back to life
An artist's RESIDENCE
Rustic details and a restrained palette lend a sense of simplicity to this lovingly restored Friesian bakery
Carefully Curated LIVING
This lovingly restored Gustavian manor has become both home and showroom for its owners, Maria & Jan Åke, who deal in European antiques