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Before it made a single candle, Diptyque was a Paris shop selling fabrics and objects, and the hand-drawn oval label still carried on every jar was designed for that business…

Opera Gallery unlocks its door on a Sunday, which almost nothing else on New Bond Street does. It trades from midday to 5pm when the rest of the street is shutters and hotel…

Trinity Fine Art has dealt in Old Master paintings and European sculpture since 1984, and it works the way the scholarly end of the trade still works: by catalogue, by exhibition,…

One garment carries this house, and Max Mara has reissued it every season for decades with only small adjustments to the shoulder and the length. The camel coat, cut in wool and…

Galeries Bartoux will hang a spray-can artist beside a modern master and ask you to take both seriously, which very few dealers on this street would attempt. The London space is…

R.M.Williams cuts its signature boot from a single piece of leather, so no seam runs down either side of a Craftsman. That is why it holds its shape for years, and why the firm…

Nobody walks into Harry Winston to browse. The conversation almost always starts with a stone, an anniversary or an inheritance, and the design comes afterwards, which is the…

Saint Laurent did something on 10 September 1969 that the clothing industry had not seen before, opening a Rive Gauche store on New Bond Street that put couture-standard design…

A folding umbrella is a different object from the one Swaine makes. Theirs is built on a single solid stick, with the handle shaped and fitted by hand to the shaft, which is why…

IWC Schaffhausen sits in the wrong place for a Swiss watch house, working from the German-speaking north rather than the Vallee de Joux or Geneva, and founded there by an American…

Jil Sander built this store rather than inheriting it, developing the retail concept with the architects Casper Mueller Kneer instead of dropping a standard fit-out into a shell,…

Inside the trade Jaeger-LeCoultre is called the Grande Maison, and the nickname is arithmetic rather than flattery. The manufacture has produced well over a thousand calibres in…