Design Museum Shop

A la fin d’une journée haute en couleurs, j’étais heureuse de passer mon tour pour ce dernier musée et pouvoir me poser ici, lire et recharger mon tél.
Plus qu’une simple boutique de souvenirs de musées — et pourtant les simples boutiques de souvenirs des musées sont souvent de base déjà très stylées, ici il s’agit d’une véritable petite boutique de design avec de très belles choses, des livres d’art aux mugs en passant par des objets design dont on ignorait l’existence mais qui semblent subitement indispensables.
Après avoir voulu acheter les ¾ de la boutique je me suis ressaissie et suis allée gentiment m’installer au café, où j’ai enfin pu goûter aux fameux «flapjacks «qui étaient bien bons, tout en lisant mon livre avec vue sur la Tamise.

The design museum gift shop… for all the Wim Crouwel ceramic magnets, state of the obvious office supplies, crinkle cups, Fika cups and £20 wooden door stops you never knew you needed by now can’t live without.
Oh, and great toilets.

I came in to use the toilet; I’ll be honest.
I left with a CMYK Mighty Wallet (
).
The buyer for the Design Museum Shop is pretty amazing.
And it’d be pretty amazing if I lived in Shad Thames and didn’t end up going bankrupt from buying all the knick knacks, doo dads and doohickies at the Design Museum Shop.

Alphabet of Endangered Species in the British Isles would make a good gift. Get anything by Jonathan Barnbook. I love the Greenaid bag but it was already sold out when I visited. The Saul Bass exhibition poster is great. When I go back I might look for Alessi red wine glasses or the Citi Skyline set.

Besides I regularly visit the Design Museums exhibitions, I think the buyer has an excellent selection of stylish, modern and avant-​garde books, post cards and products. The shop has evolved from a small outlet selling postcards and a handful of products into a destination store for design conscious visitors from all over the world.
I have found some ceramic mugs, which looked like crinkled plastic cups. The Design Museum Shop carries products designed and created by the world’s most well regarded designers, but also places emphasis on supporting and presenting new, young and emerging talents.
Another time I looked for a good architecture book for my brother while my friend found a book about pitching. I am reading that now… very useful and not too academic.
The books selected for the Design Museum Shop explore all areas of design. Focusing on the latest new titles on advertising, architecture, branding, fashion, graphics, illustration, motion graphics, products, theory and web design. It is definitely a place where you spend for hours looking and reading.