Jessie Chorley and Buddug Humphreys the Shop
Both originally from Snowdonia, North Wales, where they met and started working together Jessie Chorley and Buddug Humphreys and both now based in East London.
Their secret little shop/studio
is tucked away upstairs above ‘Marcos and Trump’, Columbia Rd. The interior is like an 18th century French boudoir with heavily adorned stairs, walls and ceilings.
Open Saturday 12.00 noon till 16.00 and Sunday 09.00 am till 15.00
You are welcome to contact us for a n appointment during the week
AND SARA DRINKWATER WROTE ON THE 8TH JUNE 2009
Meandering down the ever-busy Columbia Road market on a Sunday morning, coffee in one hand, and breakfast bap (heavy on the HP sauce, please) in the other, I found a great shop. I'd seen some of their necklaces before, last year, at Broadway market, but lost their card, so I was very pleased when, lured upstairs by an embroidered apron, I found Buddug Humphreys and Jessie Chorley's sweet, scruffy little place:
An Alice in Wonderland den of bunting, prams, papier mâché, tin handbags and handwritten love letters, it's one of the most interesting looking shops that I've ever seen, a labour of love and a perfect mirror for their stock. I could quite happily live there:
The two girls, who met as jewellery students in Wales, sell personalised necklaces, découpaged dressing table tins, odds and ends of clothing, delicate china tea cups filled with dusky pink wax to make perfect boudoir candles, and plenty more besides.
I forgot my camera so didn't get shots of my absolute favourite items; a sweet, slightly scarred tin handbag from the 50's; a tiny, heavy old perfume bottle on a chain; and an Art Deco watch necklace
And Mr Nicholas wrote after using the shop for his bands album cover.......
Climbing up the rickety wooden staircase in one of the gorgeous old houses on Columbia Road, we had just rolled out of the pub opposite to do our photo-shoot in Jessie Chorley and Buddug Humphrey's shop. Everyone was instantly entranced by their surroundings. Kind of like Dennis Severs house meets Alice in Wonderland, it is a little trip into an imaginary past. It's filled with curious artefacts that they have collected and with the jewellery, furniture and art that they have made, and it feels less like a shop than like a tiny museum, or perhaps the secret playroom of a long-lost aristocratic girl of the 19th Century. It also has a lot of very good light for the photos which comes in through the big old windows, and everywhere you stand you are surrounded by amazing things. This is definitely somewhere you should wander into one afternoon and definitely a wonderful space for taking promo pictures or for many other different uses. Beautiful, eccentric and very, very cool.
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We have also been collaborating with some photographers and using the many interesting locations that are right on our door step as back drops
Both originally from Snowdonia, North Wales, where they met and started working together Jessie Chorley and Buddug Humphreys and both now based in East London.
Their secret little shop/studio
is tucked away upstairs above ‘Marcos and Trump’, Columbia Rd. The interior is like an 18th century French boudoir with heavily adorned stairs, walls and ceilings.
Open Saturday 12.00 noon till 16.00 and Sunday 09.00 am till 15.00
You are welcome to contact us for a n appointment during the week
AND SARA DRINKWATER WROTE ON THE 8TH JUNE 2009
Meandering down the ever-busy Columbia Road market on a Sunday morning, coffee in one hand, and breakfast bap (heavy on the HP sauce, please) in the other, I found a great shop. I'd seen some of their necklaces before, last year, at Broadway market, but lost their card, so I was very pleased when, lured upstairs by an embroidered apron, I found Buddug Humphreys and Jessie Chorley's sweet, scruffy little place:
An Alice in Wonderland den of bunting, prams, papier mâché, tin handbags and handwritten love letters, it's one of the most interesting looking shops that I've ever seen, a labour of love and a perfect mirror for their stock. I could quite happily live there:
The two girls, who met as jewellery students in Wales, sell personalised necklaces, découpaged dressing table tins, odds and ends of clothing, delicate china tea cups filled with dusky pink wax to make perfect boudoir candles, and plenty more besides.
I forgot my camera so didn't get shots of my absolute favourite items; a sweet, slightly scarred tin handbag from the 50's; a tiny, heavy old perfume bottle on a chain; and an Art Deco watch necklace
And Mr Nicholas wrote after using the shop for his bands album cover.......
Climbing up the rickety wooden staircase in one of the gorgeous old houses on Columbia Road, we had just rolled out of the pub opposite to do our photo-shoot in Jessie Chorley and Buddug Humphrey's shop. Everyone was instantly entranced by their surroundings. Kind of like Dennis Severs house meets Alice in Wonderland, it is a little trip into an imaginary past. It's filled with curious artefacts that they have collected and with the jewellery, furniture and art that they have made, and it feels less like a shop than like a tiny museum, or perhaps the secret playroom of a long-lost aristocratic girl of the 19th Century. It also has a lot of very good light for the photos which comes in through the big old windows, and everywhere you stand you are surrounded by amazing things. This is definitely somewhere you should wander into one afternoon and definitely a wonderful space for taking promo pictures or for many other different uses. Beautiful, eccentric and very, very cool.
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We have also been collaborating with some photographers and using the many interesting locations that are right on our door step as back drops