The back alleys of King Cross aren’t exactly treasure troves, unless your treasure includes used rubbers. Gross. There is however, one back alley shop that collates a bunch of nick knacks you’ll want to touch.**Hughes St Antiques houses both fascinating and fairly useless objects. Owner Barry might be a man of few words, but his store is full of many things – model ships, shaggy lampshades and ancient phones are crammed into every inch of space, which kind of feels like a nanna’s living room, except it’s right around the corner from pussytown.
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Buffalo Dining ClubIn a similar vein to ‘a bull in a china shop’, ‘Buffalo Dining Club’ sounds like it could be an idiom for some reckless...
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Jebila Wolfe-Okongwu, ‘Banana...You might, perhaps, as a totally hypothetical person, feel somewhat shallow for associating the words “Banana Republic” more with chinos...
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Jonti, ‘Sine and Moon’Like a cat dancing on a piano, Jonti’s musical ability is what gives Sine and Moon its varied terroir, from the head-nodding rhythm and rhyme...
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Who Killed BambiTaking it’s name from the Sex Pistols song, Who Killed Bambi isn’t a question, it’s an online clothing store. One with a penchant...
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Alexander GirardThat commonplace ‘what do you do?’ question can be as tedious to answer as job titles can be ill-fitting and unnecessary. Alexander...
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Sly Guild online storeNew Zealand label Sly Guild was started by three brothers “who see themselves in a bit of a ghost town when it comes to manufacturing...