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“Linked by more than just blood, the three women shared an eagle eye for fine furniture, china and textiles.”
“Needless to say, I have ended up with too much stuff. So it was a relief when my younger daughter decided to set up an antiques shop online. This has become my way of editing what I keep, as well as a lovely excuse to carry on shopping.”
“Inspired by my late granny, an antique dealer, and run with my mother, a writer on design and interiors, we recycle beauty by selling decorative antique and vintage stuff for the stylish home,” Elizabeth Kemp explained.
Favourite stock items include candlesticks, majolica leaf plates, and early 19th century hand-painted china. You will also find pictures, including pressed seaweed and oak leaf wreaths, unusual pottery, glass, and textiles.
After moving back to her beloved childhood home in Devon during the pandemic, Elizabeth Kemp launched an online antiques business, Perfect English Stuff, with her mother, the writer, editor and collector Ros Byam Shaw. As Camilla Frances discovers, it's a labor of love going back generations.
Stuff gathered by three generations of makers, menders, waste-haters, treasure-seekers and savers' is how this account describes itself, run by regular House & Garden contributor Ros Byam Shaw, her daughters and mother. Expect smaller decorative items such as glassware and ceramics, all utterly lovely and quick to be snapped up so it's one to set alerts for.
Home & Antiques (page 47), January 2021
“Scroll through the squares of Instagram seller Elizabeth Kemp’s account and you’ll find all manner of antique and vintage decorative items, from fabrics to pictures and china. Pretty vintage tins feature heavily and so too do charming antique prints. After working for several years in the art world in London, Elizabeth moved to a cottage near Frome in Somerset with her husband and decided to set up a business from home. Her grandmother is an antiques dealer and her mother (Ros Byam Shaw) writes about interiors so antiques and decorating run deep. “I am selling things found by my mother and my grandmother as well as by me. The only criteria are that they are things I love and would want in my own home,” she says.